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Guidebooks
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WIC: Early Entry into Dental Care Guidebook
This online manual provides an overview of the WIC: Early Entry into Dental Care Program and lessons learned, guidance, and tools for groups interested in implementing the program in their own locales. It can be browsed online or as a downloadable pdf.
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Integrating Oral Health into School Health Programs and Policies
This guidebook is a comprehensive approach to oral health education policy in schools. It is a helpful tool for school board members and superintendents to develop local polices to address oral health in their schools.
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Reports and Briefs
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"Mommy It Hurts to Chew" (2006 Oral Health Needs Assessment)
The Dental Health Foundation (now the Center for Oral Health), in partnership with CDAF, Department of Health Services, Office of Oral Health and Maternal and Child Health Branch and CDHA, screened over 20,000 children in kindergarten and third grade to determine the oral health status of children in California.
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Dental Cuts Bite Children, Cost All Californians: The Case for Investing in School-Based Preventive Services
September 2009
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Eliminating Medi-Cal Adult Dental: Costs and Consequences
June 2009
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Legislative Briefings
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Impact of Community-Based Oral Health Services: Reducing the Barriers to Care
October 4, 2011: The legislative briefing, Impact of Community-Based Oral Health Services: Reducing the Barriers to Care was sponsored by the Center for Oral Health. Speakers focused on emphasizing preventive services to reflect the new focus of CMS and the Benefit Exchange, increasing access and utilization rates of dental care by providing services where people are and achieving sustainability and efficiency in public dental health program models.
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