This brief provides a summary of the CHIP dental benefit changes under CHIPRA and examines the states that had voluntarily sought federal approval of current benefits, or made changes to their CHIP dental benefits as of September 2011.
Meg Booth of the Children’s Dental Health Project and The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Policy Center, presented at the Maine Dental Access Coalition conference “Oral Health for Young Children” in May of this year.
Convened in conjunction with the National Academy for State Health Policy Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA – October 6, 2010 The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Policy Center (Policy Center), in its charge to enhance policymakers’ knowledge to address ongoing oral health disparities, identified the need to engage key state leaders to assess the [...]
This issue brief provides state policymakers with a brief overview of SBHCs, opportunities to address oral health in schools – including the challenges to establishing and maintaining oral health programs, and examples of innovative applications of oral health care in schools.