Adding Restorative Care to Health Center Mobile Dental Programs
Promising Practice
Year Developed: 2012
Resource Type: Publication.Primary Audience: C-Suite (CEOs, CFO's, CIO, COO's, CMO's, etc)
Secondary Audience: Clinicians
Language(s): English
Developed by: National Network for Oral Health Access (See other resources developed by this organization).
Resource Summary: Community Health Center, Inc in CT has provided mobile dental services to school-aged children since 2002. One challenge for this program was that children were not completing restorative care recommended in the mobile dental program. This promising practices shares how this health center added restorative care to their mobile dental program.
Resource Topic: Clinical Issues, Special and Vulnerable Populations, Promising/Best Practices
Resource Subtopic: Oral Health, Behavioral Health, , Oral Health, , , , , , Operational Feasibility, Implementation Feasibility.
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