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AAP Policy Statements
AAP Policy brings together a constellation of policy documents from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The following AAP Policy documents relate to oral health and are presented by date, with the most recent policy statements appearing first.
Preventive Oral Health Intervention for Pediatricians (Dec 08)
This policy is a compilation of current concepts and scientific evidence required to understand and implement practice-based preventive oral health programs designed to improve oral health outcomes for all children and especially children at significant risk of dental decay.

Guidelines for Monitoring and Management of Pediatric Patients During and After Sedation for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures: An Update (Dec 06)
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry joint statement provides guidelines for all medical and dental practitioners regarding the monitoring and management of pediatric patients during and after sedation. The sedation of children is different from the sedation of adults. Children often require deeper levels of sedation to control their behavior for safe completion of a procedure, and they are particularly vulnerable to the physiological effects of sedating medications.

Oral and Dental Aspects of Child Abuse and Neglect
(Dec 05)
Physicians with experience or expertise in child abuse and neglect should make themselves available to dentists and to dental organizations as consultants and educators. Such efforts will strengthen our ability to prevent and detect child abuse and neglect and enhance our ability to care for and protect children.

The Medical Home (Jul 02)
Efforts to establish medical homes for all children have encountered many challenges, including the existence of multiple interpretations of the "medical home" concept and the lack of adequate reimbursement for services provided by physicians caring for children in a medical home. This new policy statement contains an expanded and more comprehensive interpretation of the concept and an operational definition of the medical home.
Oral Health Risk Assessment Timing and Establishment of the Dental Home
Pediatricians and pediatric health care professionals should develop the knowledge base to perform oral health risk assessments on all patients beginning at 6 months of age. Patients who have been determined to be at risk of development of dental caries or who fall into recognized risk groups should be directed to establish a dental home 6 months after the first tooth erupts or by 1 year of age (whichever comes first).

The Pediatrician's Role in Community Pediatrics (Jun 99)
For many pediatricians, efforts to promote the health of children have been directed at attending to the needs of particular children in a practice setting, on an individual basis, and providing them with a medical home. Increasingly, however, the major threats to the health of America's children arise from problems that cannot be adequately addressed by the practice model alone. "We must become partners with others, or we will become increasingly irrelevant to the health of children."
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