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PDF: Cost Effectiveness of Preventive Dental Services

Download 23 times Source: www.cdhp.org // Topic: Dentistry File Size: 162.94 kb // Total of Page: 1 Page(s) Last download by ibnsina Last download on: 1 week ago Share this info: Sample of page (click to enlarge) Short Desciption: AI/AN Children Have Less Dental Care and Less Dental Insurance. Fewer AI/AN children and adults see a dentist in a year than others. ... Content Inside: CDHP Fact Sheet Native American Children Experience Oral Health Disparities Native American Child Oral Health Native American Children Have More Oral Disease & Less Care than Their Peers Right from the start, American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) children experience more cavities and less treatment than other US children. The odds of AI/AN preschoolers having tooth decay is 5 times greater than for US preschoolers generally and these children have 3 times more decayed teeth than their peers. By third grade, almost all AI/AN children (91%) have experienced tooth decay and 72% have unfilled cavities. Among primary-school children, AI/AN children continue to experience higher disease rates; they have four times the number of untreated caries as their peers (46% versus 11%). The cavity-disparity continues into and through the teen years affecting the permanent teeth as well as the primary teeth. AI/AN teens have more than double the amount of permanent-tooth decay as their peers