Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2253960
Michelle Luong, Meagan Smith-Bocanegra, Adam Valdivia, Kelly Vitzthum, Reeva C. Mincer, Michael Lee O’Hara, Eric C. Sung
Patients with Special Health Care Needs (SHCN) encounter many barriers in achieving optimal health. This includes primary care, mental health, and oral health. Social workers are adept at addressing these barriers and are trained to provide additional assistance such as emotional counseling, clinical case management, community resource navigation, patient education, and anticipatory guidance. While their assistance is well documented in medical care and hospital settings, collaboration between dentistry and social work is less common. The initiation and integration of a social worker program in dentistry that focused on patients with SHCNs was examined. It was found that social work integration allowed for improved identification of unmet psychosocial needs and decreased barriers to care. As a result, initial appointment attendance rates increased post-integration. Social work in a dental setting has demonstrated the ability to improve bio-psychosocial wellbeing in patients and families, helping address unmet social and psychological needs and reducing barriers to oral health care.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2246186
T. Zokaie, M. R. Clements, M. A. Sweeney
Introduction Every year in the United States, emergency departments (EDs) receive approximately 2.4 million non-traumatic dental condition (NTDC) visits. The American Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) developed a surveillance guideline to understand which specific conditions dental infrastructure can address before patients succumb to the ED for care.
{"title":"Barrier to Care: Emergency Department Utilization for Non-traumatic Dental Conditions in California","authors":"T. Zokaie, M. R. Clements, M. A. Sweeney","doi":"10.1080/19424396.2023.2246186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424396.2023.2246186","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Every year in the United States, emergency departments (EDs) receive approximately 2.4 million non-traumatic dental condition (NTDC) visits. The American Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) developed a surveillance guideline to understand which specific conditions dental infrastructure can address before patients succumb to the ED for care.","PeriodicalId":17294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the California Dental Association","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134910799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2249028
Amanda A. Marques, Sabrina R. Ribeiro, Sabrina de C. Brasil, Flávio R. F. Alves
Background Kabuki Syndrome is a rare genetic alteration of autosomal origin, known for five characteristics called Niikawa’s Pentad: skeletal abnormalities, short stature, mild to moderate intellectual and developmental disabilities, facial dysmorphism, dermatoglyphic alterations, and postnatal growth deficiency.
{"title":"C.E. Credit. Kabuki Syndrome and Its Oral Manifestations: A Case Report","authors":"Amanda A. Marques, Sabrina R. Ribeiro, Sabrina de C. Brasil, Flávio R. F. Alves","doi":"10.1080/19424396.2023.2249028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424396.2023.2249028","url":null,"abstract":"Background Kabuki Syndrome is a rare genetic alteration of autosomal origin, known for five characteristics called Niikawa’s Pentad: skeletal abnormalities, short stature, mild to moderate intellectual and developmental disabilities, facial dysmorphism, dermatoglyphic alterations, and postnatal growth deficiency.","PeriodicalId":17294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the California Dental Association","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134910801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2250608
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2249186
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2236295
Richard Graham, Richard Barnes, Tooka Zokaie, Mary McCune
Background The practice of Dentistry has adapted in the past after encountering transformational episodes with novel pathogens. This article highlights two examples of how dentists in California were granted privileges to expand their scope of practice into areas of diagnostics and prevention while at the same time incorporating new barriers to an airborne pathogen. The SARS-Cov-2 virus elevated the scope of universal precautions in dentistry with changes to acceptable PPE, administrative practices, airspace filtering and the screening of patients – including the use rapid testing for SARS-Cov-2. When a COVID-19 vaccine became available, dentists were approved to be vaccinators for the first time in California. Creation of opportunities to vaccinate at every entry point into the healthcare system, including dental offices, was vital for increased access to preventive care.Practical Implications Dentists can play a major role in disease prevention and continued advocacy for removing barriers to their role in pandemic response should continue. Coordinating with medical partners to provide testing and community vaccine confidence is necessary to help combat future flu seasons and Covid surges. With improvement in the technology of diagnostics, delivery of care, and improving patient outcomes, dental clinicians can effectively integrate disease prevention if system barriers are removed.
{"title":"Pathogens, Testing and Vaccines: California Dentists’ Role in the Public Health Response to COVID-19","authors":"Richard Graham, Richard Barnes, Tooka Zokaie, Mary McCune","doi":"10.1080/19424396.2023.2236295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424396.2023.2236295","url":null,"abstract":"Background The practice of Dentistry has adapted in the past after encountering transformational episodes with novel pathogens. This article highlights two examples of how dentists in California were granted privileges to expand their scope of practice into areas of diagnostics and prevention while at the same time incorporating new barriers to an airborne pathogen. The SARS-Cov-2 virus elevated the scope of universal precautions in dentistry with changes to acceptable PPE, administrative practices, airspace filtering and the screening of patients – including the use rapid testing for SARS-Cov-2. When a COVID-19 vaccine became available, dentists were approved to be vaccinators for the first time in California. Creation of opportunities to vaccinate at every entry point into the healthcare system, including dental offices, was vital for increased access to preventive care.Practical Implications Dentists can play a major role in disease prevention and continued advocacy for removing barriers to their role in pandemic response should continue. Coordinating with medical partners to provide testing and community vaccine confidence is necessary to help combat future flu seasons and Covid surges. With improvement in the technology of diagnostics, delivery of care, and improving patient outcomes, dental clinicians can effectively integrate disease prevention if system barriers are removed.","PeriodicalId":17294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the California Dental Association","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135208722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2240064
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Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2231234
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2220156
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1080/19424396.2023.2211507
M. Chris Fabricant
{"title":"One: The Innocence Project","authors":"M. Chris Fabricant","doi":"10.1080/19424396.2023.2211507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424396.2023.2211507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the California Dental Association","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135691299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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