Resources

Organizations

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Oral Health

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health

• Education & Training

Indian Health Service

• Oral Health Program Guide

National Network for Oral Health Access

• Dental Program Management

National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center

• Bright Futures: Oral Health—Pocket Guide
• Oral Health Care During Pregnancy: A National Consensus Statement
• Consumer Materials in English and Other Languages
• Special Care: An Oral Health Professional’s Guide to Serving Young Children with Special Health Care Needs
• All publications
• Topical Resources

Topics

Community Water Fluoridation

• Community Water Fluoridation
• Fluoride in Water

Dental Sealants

• Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Use of Pit-and-Fissure Sealants Recommendations
• Dental Caries: School-based Dental Sealant Delivery Programs
• School-Based Dental Sealant Programs

Disease Management and Risk Assessment

• ADA Caries Risk Assessment and Management
• AAPD Caries Risk Assessment and Management for Infants, Children, and Adolescents

Fluoride Supplements

• Fluoride Supplement Dosage Schedule

Non-Fluoride Containing Agents

• Non-Fluoride Caries Preventing Agents

Practice Management

• Henry Schein Dental, Inc. 2015. The Patient-Centered Dental-Health Home: An Essential Guide for Planning the CHC Dental Facility Expansion
• National Network for Oral Health Access. 2009–. Operations manual for health center oral health programs. Denver, CO: National Network for Oral Health Access.

Topical Fluorides

• Professionally-Applied and Prescription-Strength, Home-Use Topical Fluoride Agents for Caries Prevention Clinical Practice Guideline

Transmission of Disease

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2003. Guidelines for infection control in dental health-care settings—2003. MMWR Recommendations and Reports 52(RR-17):1–61.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Oral Health. 2016. Recommendations from the Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings, 2003. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Oral Health. 2016. Infection Prevention Checklist for Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care (also in Spanish). Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Oral Health. 2016. Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care (also in Spanish). Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Cleveland JL, Gray SK, Harte JA, Robison VA, Moorman AC, Gooch BF. 2016. Transmission of blood-borne pathogens in US dental health care settings: 2016 Update. Journal of the American Dental Association 147(9):729-738.
• Cleveland JL, Foster M, Barker L, Brown GG, Lenfestey N, Lux L, Corley TJ, Bonito AJ. 2012. Advancing infection control in dental settings. Journal of the American Dental Association 143(10):1127–1138.
• Klevens RM, Moorman AC. 2013. Hepatitis C virus: An overview for dental health care providers. Journal of the American Dental Association 144(12):1340–1347.
• Oklahoma State Department of Health and Tulsa Health Department. 2015. Dental Healthcare-Associated Transmission of Hepatitis C: Final Report of Public Health Investigation and Response, 2013.
• Redd JT, Baumbach J, Kohn W, Nianan O, Khristova M, Williams I. 2007. Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis B virus associated with oral surgery. Journal of Infectious Diseases 195(9):1311–1314.
• Radcliffe RA, Bixler D, Moorman A, Hogan VA, Greenfield VS, Gaviria DM, Patel PR, Schaefer MK, Collins AS, Khudyakov YE, Drobeniuc J, Gooch BF, Cleveland JL. 2013. Hepatitis B virus transmissions associated with a portable dental clinic, West Virginia, 2009. Journal of the American Dental Association 144(10):1110–1118.