Parent Attitudes regarding Orthodontists' Role as Potential Administrators of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccines.

Objective: To assess parent attitudes regarding orthodontists' role as potential administrators of human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines.

Materials And Methods: 275 parents of adolescents, aged 11-17, who attended the orthodontic clinic at an American university for orthodontic adjustment visits and met inclusion criteria were given information about HPV and HPV vaccines. A paper questionnaire was administered to assess comfort level with orthodontists as HPV vaccinators.

Relationship Between Frequent Recreational Cannabis (Marijuana and Hashish) Use and Periodontitis in Adults in the United States: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011 to 2012.

Background: Recreational use of cannabis, following its legalization in some countries, poses emergent oral and periodontal health concerns. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between frequent recreational cannabis (FRC) (marijuana and hashish) use and periodontitis prevalence among adults in the United States.

Methods: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011 to 2012 were analyzed.

Oral care needs, barriers and challenges among community dwelling elderly in New York State and northern Manhattan.

Older adults are living longer and retaining their teeth, resulting in a concomitant increase in the need for oral care services. Despite improvements in oral health among the elderly, there continue to be profound disparities by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic and dentate status. Furthermore, challenges, such as limitations in activities of daily living, poor wheel-chair accessibility of dental clinics, poor geographic distribution of providers, difficulty navigating the oral health system and fiscal limitations make access to, and utilization of, dental services difficult among older adults.

A competency-based framework for training in advanced dental education: experience in a community-based dental partnership program.

While goals and objectives are useful to assess programmatic outcomes, they are not able to evaluate individual trainees' performance and/or corrective actions needed to improve performance. As a result, competency-based evaluation is increasingly being used to assess trainee performance at both the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. However, the translation of broadly stated competency statements into evaluable action statements continues to pose a challenge, especially in nontechnical domains such as the assessment and integration of cultural and sociodemographic variables in the development and execution of treatment plans.

Considering theory-based reflection in the service-learning training of Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) residents.

Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, in partnership with the Harlem United Community AIDS Center, has developed a service-learning (SL) program for use in the training of Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) residents. This article presents basic tenets of SL, their applicability for dentistry, and our experience implementing SL in care of people living with HIV/AIDS. It proposes that social-behavioral theory, when incorporated into the basic components of SL, can play a useful role in resolving a number of challenges inherent in competency-based training programs.

Oral disease experience of older adults seeking oral health services.

Objective: The objective of this investigation was to describe the dental disease (dental caries and alveolar bone loss) experience in a sample of community-dwelling older adults who regularly utilize dental services in New York City.

Background: Public financing for dental care directed at older adults in the United States is minimal. Improved preventive methods, primarily the use of fluorides, have resulted in declines in tooth loss, and concomitant increase in risk for dental diseases among older adults.

Correlates of dental visits among community-residing Latino elders: a public health alert.

Objectives: To examine oral service utilisation in a probability sample of community-residing Latino elders.

Background: Older Latinos are at a potential increased risk of oral diseases, given their higher prevalence of co-morbidities and lower rate of dental service utilisation.

Methods: A prevalence survey was conducted among a random sample of Latino (largely Puerto Rican) elders (n = 205; mean age = 75.

Assessing the oral cancer risk of South-Asian immigrants in New York City.

Increasing immigration from South Asia, where oral cancer is one of the most common cancers in adults, suggests that this disease will probably pose a serious public health problem in the United States. According to the 2000 Census, there are approximately 1.9 million South Asians in the U.

Dental caries experience in northern Manhattan adolescents.

Objective: The study sought to document dental caries among adolescents residing in northern Manhattan, New York, by race, sex, and community.

Methods: Clinical and demographic data were collected from children aged 12-17 years at five school-based dental clinics in northern Manhattan. Data on dental caries were collected by calibrated examiners using the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research criteria for oral examinations.

Oral disease burden and dental services utilization by Latino and African-American seniors in Northern Manhattan.

Although oral diseases are among the most common chronic conditions affecting older adults, utilization of dental services by the elderly, especially minority elderly is low. This pilot study determined whether there are racial/ethnic differences in oral disease burden, perceived oral health-related quality of life, perceived need for dental services and dental services utilization between African-American and Latino seniors in Northern Manhattan. Subjects received an oral examination and a face-to-face survey to assess oral health status, perceived need, perceived oral health-related quality of life, and utilization of dental services.

Addressing tobacco in managed care: a survey of dentists' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.

Objectives: This study assessed the tobacco cessation knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of dentists participating in a large managed care dental plan.

Methods: Participating dentists in 4 states were surveyed via mail.

Results: Dentists' perceived success in helping patients quit using tobacco was highly correlated with discussion of specific strategies for quitting, advice about the use of nicotine gum, and time spent counseling patients.