The child dental care reform in Israel - service uptake from 2011 to 2022.

Background: The 2010 Child Dental Care Reform of the National Health Insurance Law marked a turning point in the Israeli oral healthcare system by establishing Universal Health Coverage of dental care for children. Initially, the reform included children up to age 8 and gradually expanded to age 18 in 2019. The basket of services includes preventive and restorative treatments provided by the four Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO).

Uptake of dental hygienist services by the Israeli 65+ age group.

Objectives: To learn about the use patterns of dental hygienist services, by the 65+ age group in Israel and to identify the main barriers facing different population groups.

Methods: Telephone interviews with a representative sample of 512 older adults aged 65 and over were conducted from February to April 2020.

Results: About 50% of the older adults aged 65 and over visited a dentist (2.

Factors affecting the use of dental services among Arab children in Israel: a qualitative study.

Background: In 2010, Israel reformed its hitherto dominantly privately financed dental services and included preventative and restorative dental care for children in the publicly-funded basket of healthcare services. A survey conducted by Brookdale Institute, found that only 67% of low-income Israeli-Arab children were using the new service (compared to 85% of Jewish children) while the majority of others continue using privately funded services. The aim of this study is to explore and explain Israeli-Arab children's low utilization of publicly-funded preventive and restorative dental care.

Oral health disparities among the 65+ age group.

Objective: Oral and dental health significantly impacts the quality of life and nutrition of the older population. While government action has been taken in Israel to reduce barriers to using dental care services by welfare recipients among older adults, there are still disparities associated with socioeconomic status in the older adult population. In 2019, a dental care reform for the older adults was implemented in Israel assuring dental Universal Health Coverage (UCH) for them.

Oral health of the 65+ age group in Israel-2020.

Background: In 2019, a reform of dental services for older adults was implemented in Israel to improve access and reduce barriers that stood in their way. The reform stipulated that preventive and restorative dentistry would be included in the basket of services of the National Health Insurance Law. The current study was conducted by the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB) and the Division of Dental Health of Israel's Ministry of Health to examine the dental status and patterns of utilizations of dental services among the 65+ age group.

Dental health of preschool children after two-years of a supervised tooth brushing program in Southern Israel.

Background: Supervised tooth brushing is an important part of leading national oral health improvement programs in different countries. With the cessation of water fluoridation in 2014, a new program was immediately required to provide community-based caries prevention, especially amongst young children. The aim of this study was to determine whether a supervised tooth brushing program (STBP) in kindergartens could reduce dental caries amongst preschool children, when compared with children from the same community who did not participate in the program.

Prevention, prevention and prevention.

A recent study by Levy et al. presents the dental treatment needs of a large sample of combat soldiers. They found that 80% need some dental care.

The association between health attitudes and behaviors and oral-health-related practices.

Objective: The objective was to examine the association between health attitudes and behaviors, and oral health practices in Israel.

Method And Materials: Secondary data analysis was performed of a cross-sectional national Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) survey in Israel. Univariate and multivariate analysis assessed the association between health attitudes and behaviors and oral health practices, namely tooth brushing frequency and routine dental clinic attendance.

Caries risk assessment tool and prevention protocol for public health nurses in mother and child health centers, Israel.

Objectives: Dental caries is the most prevalent chronic disease in children. Caries risk assessment tools enable the dentists, physicians, and nondental health care providers to assess the individual's risk. Intervention by nurses in primary care settings can contribute to the establishment of oral health habits and prevention of dental disease.

Interrelationship between oral status and histopathological aspects of periodontitis in patients from Craiova, Romania.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the oral status in a group of institutionalized individuals from Craiova, a city in South-Western Romania. Also, another objective of the study was to highlight the clinical, histological and immunohistochemical (IHC) aspects of periodontal disorders in the elderly. The study was performed on 48 institutionalized individuals examined in the Clinic of Dental Prosthetics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania, in 2013.

Does dental health of 6-year-olds reflect the reform of the Israeli dental care system?

Background: The National health insurance law enacted in 1995 did not include dental care in its basket of services. Dental care for children was first included in 2010, initially up till 8 years of age. The eligibility age rose to 12 years in 2013.

Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in the Elderly in Israel--Results from the National Health and Nutrition Survey of the Elderly 2005-2006.

Purpose: To assess the oral health-related quality of life of the Israeli elderly.

Materials And Methods: Data were collected from a subsample of those interviewed for the cross-sectional Mabat Zahav National Health and Nutrition Survey of the Elderly, carried out in 2005 and 2006 by the Ministry of Health in Israel. In-person interviews were conducted in the interviewees' homes using a structured questionnaire which included 7 questions on subjective dental health status and the 14 questions of the Oral Health Impact Profile 14 (OHIP-14).

Dental Health and the Type of Antipsychotic Treatment in Inpatients with Schizophrenia.

Aim: This study examined the association between dental conditions in hospitalized patients with ICD-10 schizophrenia and type of antipsychotic treatment. Based on the literature suggesting that atypical antipsychotics are thought to be more tolerable than typical antipsychotics, we hypothesized that hospitalized patients with schizophrenia treated with atypicals would have better dental health than those treated with typicals alone or with a combination of both (combined group).

Methods: A representative sample of 348 patients (69% males), aged 51.

Validation of a Hebrew version of the child-OIDP index, an oral health-related quality of life measure for children.

Purpose: Sociodental indicators assess to what extent oral conditions interfere with normal social functions and alter behaviour such as attending work or school, parenting or home chores. The child OIDP (oral impact on daily performance), a sociodental indicator developed by Adulyan and Sheiham, is easy to apply and has a scoring system that quantifies the effect both by extent and frequency. The purpose of this study was to adapt the child OIDP into Hebrew and evaluate its validity and reliability.

An assessment of the dental health of chronic institutionalized patients with psychiatric disease in Israel.

Many institutionalized patients with psychiatric disease have been discharged into the community and the patients who remain hospitalized are at a particularly high risk for dental disease. This study assessed the oral health and treatment needs of chronically hospitalized patients with psychiatric disease in Israel. A random sample of 301 patients hospitalized for more than 1 year in 14 of 18 psychiatric institutions in Israel was drawn from the National Psychiatric Hospitalization Registry, and 84.

Effect of implementing dental services in Israeli psychiatric hospitals on the oral and dental health of inpatients.

Objective: Psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, mood disorders, and organic brain disorders) and their treatment may lead to oral diseases, but assessment of dental status and oral care needs among patients with these disorders is lacking. This study reports changes in dental health and oral care needs of psychiatric inpatients after 1998, when psychiatric hospitals in Israel were required to provide regular dental examinations and treatment for every inpatient hospitalized longer than a year.

Methods: Two epidemiological cohorts from 1997 and 2006 representing long-term psychiatric inpatients before (N=431) and after (N=254) the reform of dental services were compared on the standardized criteria of the Decayed, Missing, and Filled Teeth (DMFT) index scores and DMFT component scores, as well as on the use of and need for dentures.

Dental attendance and self-assessment of dental status by Israeli military personnel according to gender, education, and smoking status, 1998-2006.

Objective: The goal of the study was to analyze dental attendance and self-assessment of dental status among Israeli military personnel, according to gender, education, and smoking status.

Methods: Data were analyzed from a computerized questionnaire on dental attendance and dental status, completed by military personnel who attended one medical clinic for the required periodic medical examination between 1998 and 2006.

Results: For 60% of the respondents, the last dental visit was within the previous 12 months.

National oral health knowledge, attitudes and behaviour survey of Israeli 12-year-olds, 2002.

Objective: To gather epidemiological information on oral health knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Israeli 12-year-olds.

Materials And Methods: A stratified, cluster, random and convenience sample of 12-year-old children was drawn. Stratification was by size of community, by administrative areas (regions) and by ethnicity (Jewish/other).

Dental health of 12-year-olds in Israel-2002.

Objective: To gather epidemiological information on caries prevalence and treatment needs of Israeli 12-year-olds.

Research Design: Prevalence survey of a representative sample of 12-year- olds examined according to WHO Oral Health Survey methods.

Results: The mean DMFT was 1.

Validation of a Hebrew version of the Oral Health Impact Profile 14.

Objective: This study determined the validity of a Hebrew version of the Oral Health Impact Profile in a cross-sectional study of a general dental practice in Israel.

Methods: The original English version of a short-form oral health impact profile (OHIP-14) was translated into Hebrew using the back-translation technique. Participants were interviewed and examined clinically by a calibrated dentist.