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Friday,
October 10, 2008*
Boston, Hynes Convention
Center
*One
day before the AAP NCE VIEW
FREE WEBCAST | Course
Goals - Promote
collaboration between the medical and dental communities in
addressing children’s oral health.
- Improve
child health professionals’ understanding of the causes and prevention of
early childhood dental caries, the long- and short-term consequences of dental
disease, and impact of dental disease on the individual, family,
and community.
- Provide
information about the systems of care for the improving children’s
oral health.
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Course
Schedule
12:00–1:00 pm Lunch
and Poster session Oral Health Service Award
Presentation (supported by SOPDOH)
“Bite”
Futures: Analyzing Oral Health Recommendations in the Bright Futures Guidelines
and Their Implementation
Paula Duncan, MD 1:00–1:15
pm Opening Remarks
AAP
President: Renée R. Jenkins, MD, FAAP; AAPD President: Beverly Largent,
DDS; and ADA President: Mark Feldman, DMD 1:15–1:45
pm Keynote Speaker: David O. Satcher, MD, PhD (16th
Surgeron General of the United States) 1:45 –
2:30 pm Drilling Down to the Science of Oral Disease: Facing
the Costs of Oral Health to Society
Jim
Crall, DDS, ScD Discussion includes:
Etiology, disease process (prevention, nutrition), risk factors, connection with
the whole health, connection with potential adult disease (long-term consequences),
the family dynamic of the disease (transmission), cost of disease to society now
(school, education), cost of delivery and preventative services, cost to the family
2:30 – 3:00 pm Connecting
the Dots: the Relationship between Oral Health and Well-being
Renée R. Jenkins, MD
Discussion includes: Oral health as a component of overall
health and well being, impact of oral disease on the community and impact of oral
disease on the individual 3:00–3:30 pm Break 3:30–5:00
pm Where the Rubber Hits the Road: In Practice and at the
State Level 3:30–4:15 pm Community
Crossroads: How PEDS and DDS Work Together
Martha Ann Keels, DDS, PhD; Steve Downs, MD 4:15–5:00
pm Breaking Down Barriers at the State Level: Advocacy,
Education, and Collaboration Discussion
includes: State Program (reimbursement of pediatrician for provision of oral health
risk assessment, anticipatory guidance, and fluoride application)
North
Carolina: Gary Rozier, DDS
Iowa: Jody Murph, MD
Washington: Wendy Mouradian,
MD 5:00–5:30
pm Questions and Answers |
Support for Peds21 was
provided by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, American Academy of Pediatric
Dentistry Foundation, AR Medicom, Inc., Delta Dental/Washington Dental Service
Foundation, Henry Schein, P&G Professional Oral Health, and Philips Sonicare
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Contact
Us Write
to Wendy
Nelson, Manager, Oral
Health Initiative or Aleksandra
Stolic, Manager, Section
on Pediatric Dentistry & Oral Health American
Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Blvd
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 Phone
866/ 843-2271 (AAP Customer Service); 847/ 434-7789 (questions about the program)
Fax 847/434-8000
Email oralhealth@aap.org | General
Information 
History of Peds-21
Peds-21 Archives
- 2007
Determinants of Child Health
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2006 Disaster Preparedness
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2005 Connecting for Children's Sake:
Integrating Physical and Mental Health
Care
in the Medical Home -
2004 Fact, Fiction, or the Future of Pediatric Obesity
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Mission
of the Oral Health Initiative
To encourage
and support child health care providers to conduct oral health risk assessment
and provide education and preventive oral health services to families within the
context of well child care; and to promote the establishment of a dental home. Learn
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