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Children
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Toolkit, scientists offer tips on covering oral health in rural communities
Want to know more about innovative dental care programs reaching rural areas? Curious about oral health disparities in isolated communities?…
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New concepts, resources added to oral health core topic pages
Recent updates to AHCJ’s oral health core curriculum pages include explanations of home care and prevention of gum disease, including…
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Medicaid kids getting more dental treatment; report has state-by-state breakdown
In spite of the numbers of Medicaid children rising steeply between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of them making it…
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Talk about health care costs often omits dental spending
Adult dental visits are on the decline. Overall spending on dental care has been flat for several years. Both trends…
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ACA requires dental coverage for kids; find out if it will be accessible
The new health insurance exchanges mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are required to offer pediatric dental…
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Campaign strives to improve access to care; critics say ADA misses mark
Advocates for the poor and uninsured have worked long and hard to bring attention to the shortage of dental care…
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Dentists warn of risk in cleaning pacifiers with saliva
Dental folks collectively caught their breath when they heard about the study, just published in the journal Pediatrics. The findings:…
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Industry group concerned parents may drop dental coverage
An estimated 5.3 million children are expected to get dental coverage next year through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
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Interactive tools, new apps being used to improve health care #ahcj13
Using technology in health care to interact with people certainly opens up new avenues of communication and yields more data…
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Research into behavioral genetics in its infancy #ahcj13
At the Health Journalism 2013 session on Shaping the Pediatric Brain, independent journalist David Dobbs shared insights on researching and…