A Step Toward Improving Oral Health for Our Veterans

A new white paper from CareQuest Institute and the American Institute of Dental Public Health (AIDPH) — Veteran Oral Health: Expanding Access and Equity — focuses on the need to better understand the significant deficits surrounding veteran oral health. The goal of the paper, which includes several strategic recommendations to improve access and quality of care, is to catalyze oral health professionals and policymakers toward advancing health equity for veterans.

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Top Five CareQuest Institute Publications from 2021

Which research and reports did you find most interesting in 2021? Based on the collective engagement from our audience of providers, policymakers, advocates, and oral health stakeholders across the industry, we compiled a list of the five most popular CareQuest Institute publications.

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New Best Practice Approach Report on Teledentistry

A new CareQuest Institute and Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) Best Practice Approach Report encourages state/territorial oral health programs and stakeholders to identify community barriers to care and
consider teledentistry as part of the solution. The practical Report includes guidelines and recommendations, best practice criteria, myriad resources, and several examples of teledentistry in use across the country.

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Last Call: Today's Webinar on Teledentistry Starts Soon

Experts will present key takeaways from the new CareQuest Institute-ASTDD Best Practice Approach Report about expanding the use of teledentistry, highlighting systems-level changes that need to occur. Register for today's 3 p.m. ET program.

What Role Can Dental Providers Play in HPV Prevention?

A new article in the Journal of Adolescent Health (subscription required), written by a team that includes CareQuest Institute researchers, found that dentists see a significant number of adolescents and young adults who are unvaccinated for HPV in a given year and could serve as an access point for vaccine delivery in the future.

Four Common Questions (and Answers) about VBC

During CareQuest Institute's recent Office Hour on value-based care — a bonus session after the recent webinar on the topic — a panel of experts fielded questions about the how and why of transitioning dentistry to the new model.

Progress for the Patient-Centered Dental Home

The University of Iowa Public Policy Center recently released an interactive, online PCDH Clearinghouse of approximately 500 oral health quality measures and standards, the latest product of its Patient-Centered Dental Home project. The Clearinghouse is part of a broader effort — which CareQuest Institute has helped to fund — to define and measure the concept of a Patient-Centered Dental Home.

Quote of the Week

“About a year into the pandemic, I started seeing articles come out about teledentistry being a fad and that it won’t be necessary after the pandemic. I think this is a huge misconception and one we continue to work to correct.”

- Scott Howell, DMD, MPH, in a new Voices from the Field blog post