Utilization of Dental Care and Oral Health Outcomes in the United States: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2017-2020).

Purpose: This analysis aims to evaluate the association between the time since and reason for a patient's last dental appointment across clinical oral health outcomes.

Materials And Methods: We used data from the 2017-2020 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a cross-sectional, nationally-representative survey of noninstitutionalized US adults. The predictors were the time since and the reason for the last dental appointment (routine vs.

Comparison of initial dental treatment decisions between in-person and asynchronous teledentistry examinations for people with special health care needs.

Background: People with special health care needs in long-term care settings have difficulty accessing a traditional dental office. The goal of the authors was to assess initial treatment decision concordance between dentists conducting traditional in-person examinations using mobile equipment and additional dentists conducting examinations using asynchronous teledentistry technology.

Methods: Six dentists from Access Dental Care, a North Carolina mobile dentistry nonprofit, saw new patients on-site at 12 participating facilities or asynchronously off-site with electronic dental records, radiographs, and intraoral images, all captured by an on-site dental hygienist.

Utilization of dental care and dentate status in diabetic and nondiabetic patients across US states: An analysis using the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

Objective: This study examines the differences, by state, in dental care utilization and tooth retention between adults with and without diabetes mellitus (DM).

Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual, state-based, random telephone survey of noninstitutionalized US civilian adults. The predictor variable was DM status.

Disseminating oral health educational content and evaluating its use on non-dental safety net clinic websites.

Objectives: Safety net clinics (SNC) provide healthcare to vulnerable populations and SNC websites are an important information source. In North Carolina (NC), all 100 counties are Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas, yet 91 of 317 SNCs are non-dental (ND-SNC). Our goals were to: (1) assess the presence and type of oral health (OH) information on ND-SNC websites; (2) develop and distribute an OH education webpage to ND-SNCs and track its use.

Resting metabolic rate, abdominal fat pad and liver metabolic gene expression in female rats provided a snacking diet from weaning to adulthood.

Our female rat model with continuous, ad libitum access to snacks and chow from weaning to adulthood closely mimics human feeding behavior from childhood onwards. It causes weight gain, enlarged abdominal fat pads, reduced insulin sensitivity and leptin resistance without an increase in total caloric intake. Our current study investigated if this change in energy partitioning is due to a decrease in resting metabolic rate (RMR).