Expanding dental hygiene to include dental therapy: improving access to care for children

DA Nash - American Dental Hygienists' Association, 2009 - jdh.adha.org
Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General, and the subsequent National Call
to Action to Promote Oral Health contributed significantly to raising the awareness of the …

Adding dental therapists to the health care team to improve access to oral health care for children

DA Nash - Academic Pediatrics, 2009 - Elsevier
Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General, and the subsequent National Call
to Action to Promote Oral Health, contributed significantly to raising awareness regarding the …

Developing a pediatric oral health therapist to help address oral health disparities among children

DA Nash - Journal of Dental Education, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General documented the profound and
significant disparities that exist in the oral health of children in the United States. Recently …

Developing and deploying a new member of the dental team: a pediatric oral health therapist

DA Nash - Journal of public health dentistry, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
There are inadequate numbers of dentists able and willing to treat America's children,
specifically children from low income and minority populations. This has led to the well …

Improving access to oral health care for children by expanding the dental workforce to include dental therapists

DA Nash - Dental Clinics, 2009 - dental.theclinics.com
Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General 1 and the subsequent National
Call to Action to Promote Oral Health 2 contributed significantly to raising public awareness …

[PDF][PDF] Ensuring access to oral health care for children: school-based care by dental therapists-a commentary

DA Nash, KR Mathu-Muju, JW Friedman - J Sch Health, 2015 - uknowledge.uky.edu
The oral health of children is critically important to their overall health and wellbeing.
Unfortunately, a crisis exists in the oral health of America's children; an epidemic of …

Oral health care for children in countries using dental therapists in public, school-based programs, contrasted with that of the United States, using dentists in a private …

KR Mathu-Muju, JW Friedman… - American journal of …, 2013 - ajph.aphapublications.org
The United States faces a significant problem with access to oral health care, particularly for
children. More than 50 countries have developed an alternative dental provider, a dental …

Dental therapists: improving access to oral health care for underserved children

JW Friedman, KR Mathu-Muju - American journal of …, 2014 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Disparities in dental health care that characterize poor populations are well known. Children
suffer disproportionately and most severely from dental diseases. Many countries have …

The dental therapist movement in the United States: A critique of current trends

DA Nash, KR Mathu‐Muju… - Journal of Public Health …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dental therapists are members of the oral health workforce in over 50 countries in the world
typically caring for children in publically funded school‐based programs. A movement has …

[CITATION][C] Comments on the proposed pediatric oral health therapist

JB Bramson, AH Guay - Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction A recent article in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Developing and
Deploying a New Member of the Dental Team: A Pediatric Oral Health Therapist (2005 65 …