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I Need a Ride to the Dentist!!!
The maps listed shows the location of practicing dentists in the Miami,Fla area. Areas that are highlighted in orange/red are areas that experienced a high number of residents reporting not having a working vehicle at their home. Based on our research and maps created, you can see a huge shortage in availability of practicing dentists […]
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BRFSS interactive tool Use in knowing oral health disparities.
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the world’s largest continuously conducted telephone health survey, tracks health risks in the United States. Information from the survey is used to improve the health of US residents. BRFSS offers an interactive tool to create cross-tabulation and logistic regression to analyze the variables in their data pool for […]
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Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Consumption Distribution
CDC says, Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) or sugary drinks are leading sources of added sugars in the American diet. Frequently drinking sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with weight gain/obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, kidney diseases, non-alcoholic liver disease, tooth decay and cavities, and gout, a type of arthritis According to NCHS data briefs, adults and adolescents […]
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Geographic variation in use of Dental Treatment Services
Tooth decay is one of the most common childhood chronic diseases. It is a growing problem: according to CDC, among children ages, 2 to 5, the prevalence of early childhood caries increased 15 percent between 1988–1994 and 1999–2004. Untreated tooth decay affects 19.5 percent of 2-to-5-year-olds and 22.9 percent of 6-to-9-year-olds. The disease is almost entirely preventable through a […]
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Drinking Water Fluoridation over the years
The first surveys on water fluoridation status in the United States were compiled in 1952 by the American Dental Association Council on Dental Health and the American Water Works Association. The surveys identified which communities were implementing this emerging technology. The U.S. Public Health Service has reported water fluoridation statistics periodically since 1956. The Water […]