Improving Children's Dental Health
Tooth decay is the most common, preventable chronic disease among children in the US. And in Ohio, one out of every four children has not had an annual dental visit.
CareQuest Institute and Oral Health Ohio are collaborating on an innovative program (MORE Care™) that partners physicians and dentists to provide whole-person health care to more than 15,000 underserved children across five counties in Ohio.
MORE Care looks at the whole picture and doesn’t just break it up into slices. So now both the dental and the primary care providers approach the diagnosis and treatment of the patients together — a more integrated approach.”
Taiwo Ngo, DDS, Toledo, OH
You may also be interested in:
- Expanding Integration and Access for Children’s Dental Health, a blog post that explores the importance of children’s dental health and strategies to improve medical-dental integration.
- Medical and Dental Integration: A Need for Improved Electronic Health Records, a visual report that explores the barriers that dental and medical providers experience in accessing and sharing patient health information.
- Oral-Systemic Interactions and Medical-Dental Integration: A Life Course Approach, a report that reviews the link between oral and systemic diseases and the role of medical-dental integration (MDI) in improving access to care and health outcomes.
