TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying unaddressed systemic health conditions at dental visits
T2 - Patients who visited dental practices but not general health care providers in 2008
AU - Strauss, Shiela M.
AU - Alfano, Michael C.
AU - Shelley, Donna
AU - Fulmer, Terry
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - We assessed the proportion and characteristics of patientswho do not regularly visit general health care providers but do visit dentists and whose unaddressed systemic health conditions could therefore be identified by their dentist. Of the 26.0% of children and 24.1% of adults that did not access general outpatient health care in 2008, 34.7% and 23.1%, respectively, visited a dentist. They varied by census region, family income, and sociodemographics. Dental practices can serve as alternate sites of opportunity to identify health concerns among diverse groups of US patients.
AB - We assessed the proportion and characteristics of patientswho do not regularly visit general health care providers but do visit dentists and whose unaddressed systemic health conditions could therefore be identified by their dentist. Of the 26.0% of children and 24.1% of adults that did not access general outpatient health care in 2008, 34.7% and 23.1%, respectively, visited a dentist. They varied by census region, family income, and sociodemographics. Dental practices can serve as alternate sites of opportunity to identify health concerns among diverse groups of US patients.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300420
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300420
M3 - Article
C2 - 22390440
AN - SCOPUS:84857303805
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 102
SP - 253
EP - 255
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - 2
ER -