Identifying unaddressed systemic health conditions at dental visits: patients who visited dental practices but not general health care providers in 2008.
cross_sectional · Level IV
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- Also identified by DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300420 and PMC identifier 3483998.
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Abstract
We assessed the proportion and characteristics of patients who 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.
Medical subject headings
- Dentists
- General Practice
- Health Status
- Office Visits