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Section 2: Dental Partnership Activities
Dental Partnership Activities at a Glance
Count
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Description
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12
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Number of Dental Partnership grantees, located in 13 States. Two have a Statewide focus, and 10 serve regions
totaling over 78 counties and parishes, and several large metropolitan areas across the United States.
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50
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Community agencies that are involved in delivery of
community dental care as part of dental care networks in the Dental Partnership.
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4,328
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Patients provided with HIV dental care in 2006—a 34
percent increase from program start-up in 2003.
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22,566
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Number of service visits in 2006, an increase from 13,705
such visits in 2004.
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2,500
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Number of dental students, dental residents, and dental
hygienists received training from 2004 to 2006.
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943
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Dental providers who delivered direct clinical services to
patients with HIV in 2006, an increase from 766 in 2004.
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27,868
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Number of hours of direct clinical care provided to
patients with HIV in 2006, an increase from 16,009 in 2004.
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Service/Training Strategies
- Service Delivery Innovations—reducing no-show rates
through special support and reinforcement methods, co-location of medical and
dental services, use of dental hygiene students to deliver basic dental care,
and peer advocate support for patients.
- Patient Education—one-on-one discussions during dental
appointments covering preventive care, antiretroviral adherence, and smoking
cessation, and use of patient education software for innovative in-clinic
learning.
- Partnerships—among dental schools and community agencies
solidified via memoranda of agreement, referral networks to ease
appointment-making and service linkages, collaborative planning to raise
resources and target services, and placement of faculty dental care experts into
community agencies to enhance both the quality of care and the value of
community-based student training.
- Consumer Involvement—advisory board involvement, patient
satisfaction surveys, and focus groups to solicit program input from consumers.
- Student/Provider Training—on-site rotations for
students, one-on-one and small group discussions between patients and students,
formal reflective time among students to discuss their work with PLWH,
specialized learning through preceptorships, and expansion of training beyond
dental students at affiliated schools to also target dental residents and dental
hygienists.
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