Journal article
Dental utilization for Medicaid-enrolled children with cystic fibrosis
Special care in dentistry, Vol.36(6), pp.315-320
11/2016
DOI: 10.1111/scd.12193
PMID: 27428470
Abstract
Despite a multitude of risk factors, children with cystic fibrosis (CF) have lower reported dental caries prevalence. A potential explanation is preventive dental care use, but no studies to date have examined dental use for children with CF.
Iowa Medicaid data were analyzed for children age 3 to 17 years (N = 156,268). Poisson regression models were used to compare utilization rates for any dental care and also for specific categories of dental care, by CF status.
Children with CF were significantly less likely to use any dental care than children without CF (incident rate ratio: 0.819, 95% CI: 0.80 to 0.84, p < .001). There were no significant differences in use across specific categories of dental care.
Medicaid-enrolled children with CF are less likely to use dental care than children without CF. These findings suggest that use of dental care use is an unlikely explanation for lower purported caries rates among children with CF.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Dental utilization for Medicaid-enrolled children with cystic fibrosis
- Creators
- Elise W Sarvas - University of MinnesotaColleen E Huebner - University of WashingtonJoAnna M Scott - University of WashingtonJohan K M Aps - University of WashingtonDonald L Chi - University of Washington
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Special care in dentistry, Vol.36(6), pp.315-320
- DOI
- 10.1111/scd.12193
- PMID
- 27428470
- ISSN
- 0275-1879
- eISSN
- 1754-4505
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000072, name: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, award: 5T90DE021984‐03, K08DE020856; DOI: 10.13039/100007305, name: Maternal and Child Health Bureau, award: #T76MC00011; DOI: 10.13039/100000102, name: Health Resources and Services Administration
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2016
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283853302771
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