Aging and Dental Health | American Dental Association - ADA
2023年8月21日 · Oral Health Care for the Elderly (Trans.2020:279) Resolved, that the American Dental Association supports the development of policy at the federal, state, and local levels that supports the fair, equitable, choice driven provision of dental care to promote improved health and well-being in elderly patients.
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Dental Evidence - ADA
Assessing the prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms among dental health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine Intention and Hesitancy of Dental Hygienists in the U.S. As of August 2021, 75.4% of hygienists had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a higher proportion than the general public and health care workers overall.
Evidence-based databases | American Dental Association
Access full-text systematic reviews for dentistry, healthcare, and health policy.
The Dental Care Market | American Dental Association - ADA
U.S. dental spending up in 2015 (PDF) (December 2016) Recent trends in the market for endodontics (PDF) (September 2016) Dental care utilization steady among working-age adults and children, up slightly among the elderly (PDF) (October 2016) An analysis of dental spending among adults with private dental benefits (PDF) (May 2016)
Dental Care Use – Latest Data Highlights • An estimated 45% of the U.S. population visited a dentist in 2022, an uptick from 2021. • Note that due to the methodology used (MEPS), this figure should be viewed as a slight underestimate of the true dental care use rate.
Dental and Optometric Care Access Act | American Dental …
The Dental and Optometric Care (DOC) Access Act, S. 1424 / H.R. 1385, would prohibit dental and vision plans from setting the fees network doctors may charge for services not covered by the insurers, from providing unreasonably minimal compensation for services rendered, and from forcing doctors into participating in contracts of excess of two ...
Home Oral Care | American Dental Association - ADA
2024年5月28日 · Home oral care is an important contributor to oral health and can help lessen the need for extensive dental intervention in the future. This information on home oral care, developed by the ADA, is a summary of the ADA recommendations and can help facilitate discussions with your patients about their home oral health care habits.
Care Act (ACA), only pediatric dental benefits qualified as an EHB. 7. While this change at the federal level is a positive step, adding adult dental care as an EHB will not be enoughto address a host of dental care access issues that vulnerable groups face, especially since states can still opt not to include adult dental care as an EHB. 7
Letters Dental care and veterans health - ADA
If basic dental care could mitigate the effects of, say, diabetes (a major problem among this group), wouldn’t it make sense to include dentistry in the health care equation? Now, I’m not suggesting that the VA should change its policies overnight and certainly not that private care should be excluded from the mix.
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Research from the ADA’s Health Policy Institute shows that across the states that currently do not provide comprehensive dental coverage, the net cost of providing extensive adult dental benefits is $836 million per year. This includes an estimated $1.1 billion per year in dental care costs and $273 million per year in medical care savings.