Journal of public health dentistry
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J Public Health Dent · Jan 2007
Coping with toothache pain: a qualitative study of low-income persons and minorities.
This study examined the behavioral impact of toothache pain as well as self-care strategies for pain relief among minority and low-income individuals. ⋯ Although removing financial barriers alone may not lead to preventive dental visits, it would facilitate more timely visits to dentists to treat toothache pain.
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J Public Health Dent · Jan 2006
Associations of ethnicity/race and socioeconomic status with early childhood caries patterns.
The purpose of this project was to evaluate ethnicity/race, household income and caregiver education level as predictors of (1) any early childhood caries, and (2) each of four proposed patterns of primary dentition caries. ⋯ This study supports the association of both ethnicity/race and social status with any early childhood caries. The patterns of caries were each found to be associated with specific and different socioeconomic-demographic indicators. The practical importance of these findings is that global measurement of ECC, without regard to specific caries pattern, leads to the potential for substantial non-differential misclassification of disease. The consequence of this is the potential for important ECC-SES-ethnicity/race associations to be masked. This, in turn, decreases the ability of surveys and investigations to accurately identify sub-groups of the population at greatest risk of developing ECC.
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J Public Health Dent · Jan 2003
The New York State Minority Health Survey: determinants of oral health care utilization.
To determine the factors associated with visits to a dentist and more specifically the role of dental insurance coverage and to explore the reasons for not visiting a dentist among minorities in New York State. ⋯ Increasing dental insurance coverage and increasing awareness about oral health care would be the two biggest factors in meeting the goals of year 2010.
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J Public Health Dent · Jan 2003
Australian dental students' views about smoking cessation counseling and their skills as counselors.
This paper seeks to determine Australian dental students' views about and skills to provide smoking cessation counseling. ⋯ Dental students' low perception of the effectiveness of smoking cessation counseling and the inadequacies of the current evidence-base invite more convincing research about dentists' role in tobacco control and better skills training in response.