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529 - Suncoast Community Health Center Mobile Dental Program was effective in establishing dental homes for pediatric patients with and without caries

Saturday, May 25, 2024
1:30 PM – 1:40 PM EST
Location: Exhibit Hall (back left corner of the hall, space 137)

    Presenting Author(s)

  • Kathryn Sierra Prado, DMD

    Pediatric Dental Resident- PGY2
    NYU Langone Dental Medicine, Brooklyn, NY
    NYU Langone Dental Medicine
    Tampa, Florida, United States

    • Co-Author(s)

  • NS

    Natalie Schmidt, DMD

    Pediatric Dental Resident- PGY2
    NYU Langone Dental Medicine, Brooklyn, NY
    NYU Langone
    Sarasota, Florida, United States

    • Research Mentor(s)

  • RS

    Ruchi Shukla, DMD

    Associate Program Director- Tampa Site
    NYU Langone Dental Medicine, Brooklyn, NY
    Brandon, Florida, United States

    • Program Director(s)

  • DK

    Daniel J. Kane, DMD

    Program Director
    NYU Langone Dental Medicine, Brooklyn, NY
    Brooklyn, New York, United States

Abstract:



Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess how effective the Suncoast Mobile Dental Program is in helping patients in the community, with and without caries, establish a dental home.

 



Methods: A retrospective chart review was conducted at Suncoast Community Health Center (SCHC) Pediatric Dentistry Department. Electronic dental records were obtained from a random selection of 100 patients (six to ten years old) who were seen in the SCHC Mobile Dental Program between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2021. Univariate analysis of all variables was conducted and a bivariate chi-square test of association was performed in order to determine the association between variables.

 



Results: The average age of the 100 randomly selected patients seen in the mobile dental program was 7.83 years (+/- 1.1). Sixty (60%) of these patients had suspected caries and 40 (40%) did not have suspected caries. Appointments were scheduled for 34 (34%) patients, while 26 (76%) patients showed up for their appointments. Of the 100 patients included in the study, 22 (22%) of patients seen in the Mobile Dental Program established a dental home.  Fifteen (68%) of the patients that established a dental home had caries while seven (32%) did not have caries (p=0.37).

 



Conclusions: Utilizing mobile dental programs as a resource to increase access to care for pediatric dental services is effective. Children with caries that were seen on the Mobile Dental Clinic established a dental home more frequently than those without caries, but the difference was not statistically significant.

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