Disparities in Receipt of Preventive Dental Services in Children From Low-Income Families.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Healthy People 2020 includes a goal of increasing use of preventive dental care among children from low-income families. The services used to define preventive care are evidence-based services (i.e., dental sealants and professionally applied topical fluoride) and professional dental cleaning, which lacks evidence of effectiveness in preventing caries. This study examined how increasing preventive dental care use and reducing disparities by race/ethnicity among children from low-income families varied by the services included in case definitions of preventive dental care use.

Methods

Three case definitions of past-year preventive dental care use were considered: (1) the Healthy People 2020 definition; (2) receipt of an evidence-based caries prevention service; a

SUBMITTER: Wei L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7962422 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature