Expanding School-based Oral Health Programs in the Carolinas: Challenges and Opportunities [0.03%]
南北卡罗来纳州学校口腔健康项目的挑战与机遇
Amy Martin,Amah Riley,Anna Pollard et al.
Amy Martin et al.
School-based oral health programs are an effective approach to population-based care and a stalwart of public health, especially in rural and underserved communities. Lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic have informed contemporary s...
How North Carolina's New Center on the Workforce for Health Can Contribute to Oral Health Improvements [0.03%]
北卡罗来纳州新设立的工作健康中心如何促进口腔健康改善
Andy MacCracken
Andy MacCracken
The recently created North Carolina Center on the Workforce for Health can help to ensure an adequate oral health workforce to appropriately meet the dental care needs of all our state's residents. ...
Raydiance Swanston
Raydiance Swanston
Christine Kanan,Carolina McLeod,Rebekah Mathews
Christine Kanan
Teledentistry is a valuable technology tool that supports dental professionals in improving access to oral health care. Technological infrastructure, workforce availability, staff readiness, reimbursement, and patient population served must...
James W Couch,Heather Slawinski
James W Couch
North Carolina has adopted managed care for administration of its Medicaid program for management of medical benefits. The North Carolina Medicaid dental program, however, continues to be administered through a traditional fee-for-service m...
Jamie Burgess-Flowers,Kelsey Yokovich
Jamie Burgess-Flowers
This perspective piece focuses on the impact that cultural influences have on oral health and underscores the need for culturally attuned care. It explores how integrating cultural elements into patient care can enhance health outcomes and ...
Brooke Lombardi,Catherine Moore,Haley Simons et al.
Brooke Lombardi et al.
Work remains in North Carolina to effectively increase access to oral health care and address the maldistribution of the dental workforce. This study provides updated data on the oral health workforce (from 2000 to 2022) in response to the ...
Patrick Roberson,Ruma Simhan,Osaremhen Ikhile
Patrick Roberson
Effective oral health-related policymaking and program implementation rely on comprehensive, accurate, and timely data. This commentary will address the lack of data available and the need for a robust data dashboard, in addition to the imp...
J Steven Cline
J Steven Cline
How did we let the mouth get separated from the rest of the body? And more importantly, how do we put oral health back into overall health? This issue of the NCMJ highlights recent efforts to develop strategies to create an accessible, sust...