Delivering dental care in rural schools using telehealth
By Health Resources & Services Administration on
Delivering dental care in rural schools using telehealth
Telehealth can be used by dentists to provide care to children in a rural school.
Dental Public Health Practice: Improving the Oral Health of California Communities
By Jayanth Kumar, DDS, MPH; Sepideh Banava, DDS, MSc, MPH; Lisa Berens, DDS, MPH; Lynn Walton-Haynes, DDS, MPH on
Background
Dental public health (DPH) is a specialty of dentistry that serves the community as a patient rather than the individual. It requires broad knowledge and skills in preventing and controlling oral diseases, planning and administering programs, applied research, surveillance and…
Improving Oral Health Using Teledentistry and Virtual Dental Homes: Concepts and Progress
By Adam Lampe, BA, Sevinch Djalilova, BS, Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA, and Valerie Phillips, BS, MS, RDH, RDHAP on
ABSTRACTBackground: In the last several decades new delivery systems have been developed and tested that demonstrate the ability to reach people who traditionally do not receive dental care. These systems bring care to people in community locations, using allied oral health personnel and social…
Dental Public Health – An Elusive Specialty With a Community Heart
By Christine Hao on
When I say I’m a resident in Dental Public Health, I typically receive two responses: #1: “Nice! What do you do?” and #2: “So, do you see patients?” I realize there is no short answer and if that sparked your interest, read on.