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Identifying unaddressed systemic health conditions at dental visits: Patients who visited dental practices but not general health care providers in 2008

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  • Strauss, S.M.
  • Alfano, M.C.
  • Shelley, D.
  • Fulmer, T.

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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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  • Strauss, S.M. & Alfano, M.C. & Shelley, D. & Fulmer, T., 2012. "Identifying unaddressed systemic health conditions at dental visits: Patients who visited dental practices but not general health care providers in 2008," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 102(2), pages 253-255.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2011.300420_1
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300420
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    2. Mikko Nurminen & Jenni Blomgren, 2021. "Associations of Medical Visits with Dentist Visits: A Register-Linkage Study of a Working-Age Population in Finland," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(24), pages 1-12, December.
    3. Anna Durbin & Bennett T. Amaechi & Stephen Abrams & Andreas Mandelis & Sara Werb & Benjamin Roebuck & Janet Durbin & Ri Wang & Maryam Daneshvarfard & Konesh Sivagurunathan & Laurent Bozec, 2022. "Protocol for a Case Control Study to Evaluate Oral Health as a Biomarker of Child Exposure to Adverse Psychosocial Experiences," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(6), pages 1-18, March.

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