Dental Professionals

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Transcript of Dental Professionals

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2. A Public Health Perspective onOral Diseases 3.

  • The following material contains
  • disturbing pictures of the mouths
  • of Ontario residents.
  • Viewer discretion is advised.

Warning: 4. Privatevs.Public 5. How is Dentistry a Public Health Issue? 6. Canadian Institute for Health Information, National Expenditure Trends, 1975-2006 Other Professionals Expenditure by Source of Finance and Type Canada, 2004 ($ = Billions) 7. Canadian Institute for Health Information, National Expenditure Trends, 1975-2006 8. Recent Research

  • Sick Kids Study
  • Academic Performance
  • UK Study
  • Inflammatory Responses

9. Caries: AnInfectious Disease 10. How are the bacteria which cause dental decay transmitted? 11. 1 st Dental Visit Ideallyby1 st Birthday 12. Why are dental problems more likely to be seen in socially deprived populations? 13.

  • Biological
    • Mothers dental health affects child
  • Psychological
    • Health beliefs
    • Feeling that life is beyond control
    • Depression and other factors
    • Learned behaviours
  • Environmental / lifestyle

14. Dental Neglect a critical issue in the larger child abuse/neglect spectrum Child Neglect Neglect of Childs Basic Physical Needs Harm ByOmission Caregiver Response to Childs Physical Health 15. Neglect of Childs Basic Physical Needs

  • Extremely or Moderate Neglectful Conditions: Personal Hygiene Examples
    • Child emits strong mouth odour
    • Teeth encrusted with green or brown matter

16. Caregiver Response to Childs Physical Health

  • A child is in need of protection when:
  • Inadequate caregiver response to the childs physical health care means the caregiver either deliberately does not provide or refuses to provide or is unavailable or unable to provide consent to required medical treatment to cure, prevent, or alleviate the childs . . . dental problem. An inadequate caregiver response would also include those caregivers who consent to the treatment but who do not follow through and take the actions necessary to provide the treatment.

17. Detection and prevention of dental neglect areessentialcomponents in the overall care and protection of children . 18. Review of CurrentGovernmentPrograms

  • What is available for your client?
  • How to get through the maze.

19. In Your Practice

  • Consider what you can do to make your practice more accessible.

20. In YourCommunity

  • Help to raise
  • awareness that dental
  • disease isstilla real
  • problem in Ontario.

21. In YourCommunity

  • Support projects
  • that help to
  • decrease poverty
  • in Ontario.

22. In YourProvince

  • Lobby the decision
  • makers to support
  • (and improve)
  • programs that
  • address dental
  • needs in Ontario .

23. Its not just OHI!

  • Oral health promotion demandsmore than instruction to individuals .It requires changes in the physical or social environment in which families live, play and study.
  • -R.G. Watt, S.S. FullerinBDJ 186:1999

24. EveryoneDeserves aPain-FreeSmile 25.

  • Portions of this presentation were adapted from:
    • The State of Connecticut Department of Public Health ( with permission)
    • The work of Dr. B. Carol Janik, Acting Chief, Division of Dentistry, Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario(with Permission).
  • Various photos (used with permission) are from:
  • Crest www.dentalcare.com
  • The Public Health Agency of Canada
  • The following Ontario Public Health Agencies:Brant, Halton, Middlesex-London, Oxford, York Region
  • Material may not be altered without permission from the Ontario Association of Public Health Dentistry.