November 28, 2022
Costs as a deterrent to care… Growing racial disparities across the system… Lack of access to dental coverage.
November 21, 2022
“The AMA just created a transformative mechanism for payors to support medical teams to control tooth decay with a breakthrough medicine,” said Jeremy Horst Keeper, DDS, PhD, director of clinical innovation at CareQuest Institute Partners and one of the authors of the code. “SDF is carefully brushed on to cavities and repeated periodically, stopping a great majority of them. It also prevents new cavities more efficiently than anything we’ve ever seen before.
“During the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, teledentistry use increased by 60 times,” according to CareQuest Institute researchers in a new article in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry.
The article shares key findings from interviews with 21 dental professionals about their experience with teledentistry during the first year of the pandemic — and what those professionals envision for the future of teledentistry. Three common themes emerged from the interviews:
November 18, 2022
November 14, 2022
Most Americans may assume that thanks to their sacrifices, veterans have unfettered access to comprehensive health services. But that’s not the case, as Sarah A. Sherman learned when she became Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS). The agency advocates for veterans and their families.
November 14, 2022
A recent survey conducted by CareQuest Institute for Oral Health found that 29% of adults cited lack of insurance as a reason to avoid future dental care, 27% cited cost, 18% cited the COVID-19 pandemic, 11% said they had no reason to go, and 9% cited dental anxiety.
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