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The purpose of the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) is to respond to the needs of states and communities in addressing current and emerging public oral health issues. OHRC supports health professionals, program administrators, educators, policymakers, and others with the goal of improving oral health services for infants, children, adolescents, and their families. The resource center collaborates with federal, state, and local agencies; national and state organizations and associations; and foundations to gather, develop, and share quality and valued information and materials. A fact sheet describing the services of the resource center is available. The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) is pleased to announce the release of a summary report from an MCHB expert meeting on the dental home, and accompanying resources.
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August 2009
The Dental Home: Summary from an MCHB Expert Meeting
Developed by the Altarum Institute and the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/PDFs/DentalHome_Report.pdf
This report summarizes an expert workgroup meeting held on September 18–19, 2008, in Washington, DC, exploring the concept of the dental home. Topics include promising program approaches for defining and implementing dental homes, relationships between dental homes and medical homes, social and health risks that impact dental homes, and health system requirements needed for dental homes.
Companion resources:
Environmental Factors in Implementing the Dental Home for All Young Children [paper]
By Burton Edelstein for the National Oral Health Policy Center at Children's Dental Health Project
http://www.cdhp.org/system/files/1.%20Implementing%20the%20Dental%20Home.pdf
This background paper was prepared for the expert meeting and is now available as a final report. It explores critical environmental forces in the literature relevant to the adoption and implementation of the dental home for all children. Topics include the advent of "social medicine", expanding the knowledge of early childhood caries risk and disease management, trends in oral health and oral health care disparities and the forces that propel them, perceived need for oral health services and barriers to dental home utilization, dentistry as an independent health profession, and dental system capacity for all children including those with special health care needs. Additional items include program and cost implications and several logic models are included.
The Dental Home Concept [presentation]
Produced by the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/PDFs/DentalHome_Presentation.pdf
This presentation shares information about the expert meeting summary report. It outlines the background and purpose of the meeting and key components of dental homes and other meeting conclusions. The presentation has been developed for your education or to present to others. It is available in PDF format for easy download. To view as a presentation, choose the "view full screen" or "slide show" option in your PDF viewer.
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