Nash David A
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0297, USA.
Dent Clin North Am. 2009 Jul;53(3):469-83. doi: 10.1016/j.cden.2009.03.007.
This article documents the disparities in oral health among children, identifies barriers to access to care for children, describes the use of dental therapists internationally to improve access to care for children, documents previous efforts in the United States to train individuals other than dentists to care for children's teeth, describes the current status of the use of dental therapists in Alaska, justifies limiting the care given by dental therapists to children, suggests potential economic advantages of using dental therapists, and concludes by describing how dental therapists could be trained and deployed in the United States to improve access to care for children and reduce disparities in oral health.
本文记录了儿童口腔健康方面的差异，确定了儿童获得口腔护理的障碍，描述了国际上使用口腔治疗师改善儿童口腔护理可及性的情况，记录了美国以往培训非牙医人员护理儿童牙齿的努力，描述了阿拉斯加使用口腔治疗师的现状，论证了将口腔治疗师的护理工作限定于儿童的合理性，提出了使用口腔治疗师的潜在经济优势，并通过描述如何在美国培训和部署口腔治疗师以改善儿童口腔护理可及性并减少口腔健康差异来得出结论。
