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Implications for Designing Online Oral Health Resources: A Review of Fifty-Six Websites
Sara Kim, Ph.D.; Wendy E. Mouradian, M.D., M.S.; Penelope J. Leggott, D.D.S., M.S.; Douglas C. Schaad, Ph.D.; Cheryl Shaul, B.S.
Dr. Kim is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine; Dr. Mouradian is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Dentistry, and Health Services; Dr. Leggott is Professor of Pediatric Dentistry; Dr. Schaad [...]
Intraosseous Anesthesia
Implications, Instrumentation and Techniques
CHRISTOPHER H. KLEBER, D.D.S.
ABSTRACT
Background
The author reviews historical methods and the instruments used to bring about intraosseous anesthesia, or IOA; discusses the criteria for successful use of the intraosseous injection, or IOI, technique; and provides recommendations.
Types of Studies Reviewed. Articles from before 1990 consisted of subjective reports of patient types and procedures performed [...]
Intraosseous Injection
Successful anesthesia during dental procedures can be difficult to achieve. Intraosseous injection has been shown to enhance anesthetic success significantly when used alone1–3 or as a supplement to conventional local anesthetic, particularly in cases of irreversible pulpitis. Anesthesia of the surrounding soft tissue, bone and teeth is achieved by the deposition of local anesthetic into [...]
Expansion of Dental Benefits Under the Medicare Advantage Program
At the height of the First Seniority Dental Plan, there were approximately 65,000 members. The population was 56 percent female and 44 percent male. The age distribution for those members who were reported as using the benefit in 1997 was as follows: age sixty-five to seventy years, 43 percent; age seventy-one to seventy-five, [...]
Promoting the Oral Health of Older Adults Through the Chronic Disease Model: CDC’s Perspective on What We Still Need to Know
Barbara F. Gooch, D.M.D., M.P.H.; Dolores M. Malvitz, Dr.P.H.; Susan O. Griffin, Ph.D.; William R. Maas, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Key words: community dentistry, dental caries, geriatric dentistry, health promotion, oral health, oral and pharyngeal cancers, public health dentistry
Abstract
he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has adopted a multicomponent approach to [...]
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