Follow-up preventive dental visits for Medicaid-enrolled children in the medical office

Journal of Public Health Dentistry
Rocio B QuiñonezSally C Stearns

Abstract

To describe the frequency and determinants of follow-up preventive oral health visits at medical offices among children screened for dental disease, receiving fluoride varnish and counseling. Parents of Medicaid children enrolled in a clinical trial completed a baseline questionnaire before their child's medical visit. The providers completed patient dental encounter forms at each visit, documenting dental services, caries risk, and dental disease. Questionnaires, encounter forms, and Medicaid claims were linked to create a database with information on visits, child and caregiver characteristics, and oral health practices. Descriptive and multivariate analyses assessed associations of variables with likelihood of follow-up visits. A total of 744 children with mean age of 15 months at enrollment had 1,415 oral health visits. Children averaged 0.9 follow-up oral health visits and 1.3 follow-up well-child visits. Fewer children had follow-up oral health visits (55 percent) than well-child visits (70 percent), but children with a baseline preventive dental visit at a younger age had more visits with shorter intervals. Caregivers reporting greater numbers of children and putting the child to bed with the bottle had more subsequent v...Continue Reading

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