The field of dentistry has a diversity problem. Despite calls for a more diverse workforce, only 15.2 percent of dental school applicants in 2016 were underrepresented minorities, according to the American Dental Education ...
Sep 10, 2019
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Oral cancer accounts for 2 percent of reported malignancies and 1.2 percent of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Oral cancer screening (OCS), recommended by the American Dental Association since 2010, can help to ...
Aug 21, 2019
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Nearly 37 million people were living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) globally in 2017, according to the World Health Organization.
Jul 25, 2019
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Visits to the dentist drop significantly after adults turn 80, finds a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Jul 24, 2019
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Oral health has been isolated from traditional healthcare and health policy for too long, despite the major global public health burden of oral diseases, according to a Lancet Series on Oral Health, published today in The ...
Jul 19, 2019
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If you're over sixty-five, chances are better than two-to-one you don't have dental insurance. According to a report released in May by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 29.2 percent of American seniors ...
Jul 9, 2019
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Disparities in young children's experiences at the dentist are linked to income, ethnicity and language, according to a new study from the University of California, Irvine. Published in Academic Pediatrics, it found that ...
May 3, 2019
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Nursing, medical, and dental students can work as a team to improve their knowledge of pediatric oral health—and how to work with their fellow health professionals, finds new research led by NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. ...
Apr 22, 2019
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Sitting at the forefront of inequalities in oral health care, Pasifika youth are well placed to provide solutions to the problem, a unique University of Otago study has found.
Apr 18, 2019
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African American women with poor oral health may be more likely to get pancreatic cancer (PC).
Mar 28, 2019
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