Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors

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Association of State and Territorial Dental
Directors
                                                
            Optimal oral health across the
lifespan

• Lynn A. Bethel, RDH, BSDH, MPH
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health

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Mission of ASTDD

• ASTDD provides leadership to advocate a
  governmental oral health presence in each state
  and territory, to formulate and promote sound
  oral health policy, to increase awareness of oral
  health issues, and to assist in the development
  of initiatives for prevention and control of oral
  diseases.

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ASTDD Web Site (www.astdd.org)
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ASTDD Web Sitewww.astdd.org

• Member and Associate Member Roster
• Best Practices for State Oral Health Programs
• State Dental Public Health Activities Summaries
• National Oral Health Surveillance System
• Synopsis of State Oral Health Programs
• Oral Health Basic Screening Survey Tool
• Guidelines for State and Territorial Oral Health
  Programs
• Oral Health Matters---quarterly newsletter
• Conference information, RFPs, new resources,
  etc.

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Best Practice Approaches
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ASTDD Web Sitewww.astdd.org

• Best Practice Approach Reports
• ? Include expanded descriptive
• reports of current practices
• State and Community Practice Examples
• ? Descriptive summaries of dental
• public health activities
• ? Provides a support network
• Emergent Issues for Dental Public Health and Oral
  Health Programs

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State Territorial Dental Public Health Activities
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ASTDD Web Sitewww.astdd.org

• Descriptive summary of state dental public health
  activities
• Personalized to each state and their resources
• Contact information is provided for more
  information

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Synopsis of State Dental Public Health Programs
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ASTDD Web Sitewww.astdd.org

• Link to CDC website
• Tracks Healthy People 2010 objectives
• Fluoridation
• Information on all 50 states, DC and the US
  Territories
• Demographics
• of CHCs
• Medicaid data
• of dental hygienists

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State Activities - SummariesSupport Network
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ASTDD Web Sitewww.astdd.org

• NOHSS is designed to monitor the burden of oral
  disease, use of the oral health care delivery
  system, and the status of community water
  fluoridation on both a national and state level.
• Linked with the CDC
• Framework for chronic disease surveillance
  indicators
• Three of the oral health indicatorsdental visit,
  dental cleaning, and complete tooth loss

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Survey ToolsBasic Screening Survey
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Territorial Jurisdiction Oral Health Programs
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Assessment Tools- Data Collection- Surveillance
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Program Implementation
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ASTDD Web Sitewww.astdd.org

• Provides specific resources, including Best
  Practices, to assist in the development and
  implementation of specific community-based oral
  health programs
• Water fluoridation
• Sealant programs
• Children with Special Health Care Needs
• Head Start
• School and Adolescent Oral Health
• Disaster Preparedness

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State of the Science
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ASTDD Web Sitewww.astdd.org

• State of the Science information focuses on
  scientific research studies and analysis that
  provide evidence on the effectiveness and/or the
  efficiency of dental public health strategies and
  methods
• abstracts and full articles by topic
• AAPHD/ADA/CDC

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• Lynn A. Bethel, RDH, BSDH, MPH
• Interim Director Office of
  Oral Health
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  250 Washington Street
  Boston, MA 02108 617-624-6074