Preventive Dental Care and Long-Term Dental Outcomes among ALL Kids Enrollees.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether early or regular preventive dental visit (PDV) reduces restorative or emergency dental care and costs for low-income children.

Study setting

Enrollees during 1998-2012 in the Alabama CHIP program, ALL Kids.

Study design

Retrospective cohort study using claims data for children continuously enrolled in ALL Kids for at least 4 years. Analyses are conducted separately for children 0-4 years, 4-9 years, and >9 years. For 0-4 years, the intervention of interest is whether they have at least one PDV before age 3. For the other two age groups, interventions of interest are if they have regular PDVs during each of the first 3 years, and if they have claims for a sealant in the first 3 years. Outcomes-namely restorative and emergency dental ser

SUBMITTER: Sen B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5134206 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature