Ryan White HIV/AIDS Community Based Dental Partnership Program

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Count	Description
12	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.
50	Community agencies that are involved in delivery of community dental care as part of dental care networks in the Dental Partnership.
4,328	Patients provided with HIV dental care in 2006—a 34 percent increase from program start-up in 2003.
22,566	Number of service visits in 2006, an increase from 13,705 such visits in 2004.
2,500	Number of dental students, dental residents, and dental hygienists received training from 2004 to 2006.
943	Dental providers who delivered direct clinical services to patients with HIV in 2006, an increase from 766 in 2004.
27,868	Number of hours of direct clinical care provided to patients with HIV in 2006, an increase from 16,009 in 2004.

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.