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Teledentistry may take care of unmet dental care due to COVID-19 pandemic
Researchers have recently observed that unmet child dental care was more common in households where a pandemic-related job or income loss occurred, as published in The Journal of the American Dental Association.
The degree to which children experience the unmet need for dental care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its association with a pandemic-related household job or income loss is unknown.
Hence, Jacqueline M. Burgette and colleagues from the Departments of Dental Public Health and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; and Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, USA conducted the present study to understand the association between income loss during the COVID-19 Pandemic and children's dental care.
The authors performed a cross-sectional household survey of 348 families in Pittsburgh, PA. Unmet need for child dental care and pandemic-related household job or income loss was assessed using caregiver self-report.
The following results were observed-
- The greatest unmet child health care need during the COVID-19 pandemic was dental care (16%) followed by medical care for a good visit or vaccination (5%).
- Approximately 40% of caregivers reported job loss or a decrease in household income due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- There is a significant association between the probability of unmet child dental care and pandemic-related household job or income loss (P=.022).
- Losing a job or experiencing a decrease in income due to the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with unmet child dental care (Relative Risk, 1.77; 95% confidence interval, 1.08 to 2.88).
Hence, the authors concluded that "three times as many households reported unmet dental care for a child compared to unmet medical care. Unmet child dental care was more common in households where a pandemic-related job or income loss occurred."
If unmet dental care continues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, non-traditional strategies for delivering dental care can be considered to improve access to dental care for children, such as teledentistry and oral health prevention services in primary care settings, they further added.
BDS, MDS( Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry)
Dr. Nandita Mohan is a practicing pediatric dentist with more than 5 years of clinical work experience. Along with this, she is equally interested in keeping herself up to date about the latest developments in the field of medicine and dentistry which is the driving force for her to be in association with Medical Dialogues. She also has her name attached with many publications; both national and international. She has pursued her BDS from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore and later went to enter her dream specialty (MDS) in the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry from Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences. Through all the years of experience, her core interest in learning something new has never stopped. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751
Dr Kamal Kant Kohli-MBBS, DTCD- a chest specialist with more than 30 years of practice and a flair for writing clinical articles, Dr Kamal Kant Kohli joined Medical Dialogues as a Chief Editor of Medical News. Besides writing articles, as an editor, he proofreads and verifies all the medical content published on Medical Dialogues including those coming from journals, studies,medical conferences,guidelines etc. Email: drkohli@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751