Oral Health Publications

• Dental Screenings and Daily Care for North Dakota Nursing Home Residents: A Promising Practice
  This fact sheet details North Dakota nursing home residents’ dental status, federal and state law regarding their dental care, assessment of their dental care, and a guide for resident dental screening.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: April 2018
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Dental Screenings and Daily Care for Nursing Home Residents: A Promising Practice
  This fact sheet describes nursing home residents’ dental status, federal law regarding their dental care, assessment of their dental care, and a guide for resident dental screening.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: April 2018
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Evaluation of the Long Term Care Oral Health Program
  This fact sheet details assessments for long term care facilities participating in a mobile oral health program.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Fix, N.
  Date: April 2018
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Standardized Dental Screening for New Nursing Home Residents: A Promising Practice Guide
  This guide provides a template for nursing home administrators and dental professionals to help ensure all nursing home residents, upon admission, have dental screenings done by dental professionals.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Fix, N.
  Date: April 2018
  Type: Resource
• Dental Coverage for Nursing Home Residents
  Examines reimbursement opportunities for dental services at long-term care facilities.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: November 2017
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Dental Practice Setting Influences Dentists’ Attitudes toward Oral Health Access Solutions
  Examines the correlation between dentists’ attitudes toward different oral health access solutions and the setting of the dental practice.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: May 2017
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Dentists’ Feelings of Being Overworked Influence Attitudes toward Oral Health Access Solutions
  This fact sheet concludes that dentists who are overworked were less knowledgeable about different oral health access solutions than dentists that reported not being busy enough.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: May 2017
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Years in Practice Influence Dentists’ Attitudes toward Oral Health Access Solutions
  Analyzes the attitudes dentists have toward a variety of different oral health access solutions using a survey sent out to North Dakota dentists.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: May 2017
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Dentists’ Knowledge, Support, and Participation in Proposed Dental Care Access Solutions: Results of the North Dakota Survey of Practicing Dentists
  Data Brief detailing knowledge, support, and participation of North Dakota dentists in proposed dental care access solutions. This product is complementary information to a series of fact sheets regarding oral health in North Dakota.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Fix, N.
  Date: April 2017
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Community Health Centers Providing Dental Care to Disparate Populations in North Dakota
  This case study explores how Community Health Centers in North Dakota provide dental care to disparate populations, while also identifying opportunities to close the gap that exists in accessing oral healthcare.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Lee, J.
  Publication: American Journal of Medical Research, 4(1), 50-60
  Date: January 2017
  Type: Journal Article
• Oral Health among North Dakota Adults (18-64)
  Examines dental care utilization among adults ages 18 to 64 in North Dakota. Provides information on barriers to oral healthcare utilization.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: January 2017
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Oral Health among North Dakota Elderly
  Discusses oral healthcare utilization among the elderly in North Dakota, including those in nursing homes.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: October 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Oral Health among North Dakota Medicaid Recipients
  Examines dental care utilization among Medicaid recipients in North Dakota.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: October 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Oral Health Programs in North Dakota
  Policy Brief detailing current oral health initiatives in North Dakota.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Fix, N.
  Date: October 2016
  Type: Policy Brief
• Educating the Oral Health Workforce in North Dakota
  Discusses the educational background and training of the oral healthcare workforce in North Dakota, and provides information on the future need for additional oral health workforce.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: September 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Expanding the Dental Team in North Dakota
  Examines the use of Dental Therapists to meet the need for oral healthcare in North Dakota. Discusses dental accreditation, policy, licensing, training, education, and reimbursement for care in North Dakota. Also provides an overview of states that have implemented dental therapy.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: September 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Social Factors Affecting Pediatric Oral Health in North Dakota
  Identifies youth in North Dakota who do and do not have the appropriate knowledge and resources necessary to practice good oral hygiene. Discusses contributing factors to overall oral health, such as consumption of soda or sugary drinks, brushing habits, and access to oral healthcare supplies.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: July 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Pediatric Oral Health Disparities in North Dakota
  Examines oral health outcomes for children in North Dakota, such as cavities and rates of tooth decay.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: July 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Fluoride Varnish Application in Primary Care Settings
  Examines the use of fluoride varnish for pediatric patients in primary care, as well as awareness of fluoride varnish as a reimbursable service in the primary care setting.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: July 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Dentists Providing Oral Healthcare to Long Term Care Residents: Survey Chartbook & Four North Dakota Case Studies
  The survey was to assist in identifying providers for case study, and to identify barriers to providing care in long term care facilities.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Bright, P.
  Date: July 2016
  Type: Report
• Fluoride Varnish Application among North Dakota Family Practice Physicians & Pediatricians: 2016 Chartbook
  Pediatricians and family practice physicians in North Dakota completed a survey to examine fluoride varnish application in clinical practices.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Ahmed, A.
  Date: July 2016
  Type: Report
• Oral Healthcare Service in North Dakota Community Healthcare Centers
  Examines dental health professional shortage areas in North Dakota, and provides recommendations for increasing access to care through community health centers.
  Author(s): Lee, J., Schroeder, S.
  Date: July 2016
  Type: Policy Brief
• Post-Assessment of the Long Term Care Oral Health Program: Aggregate Report
  Comprehensive report of North Dakota Long Term Care Facilities participating in the state’s LTC Oral Health Program. Discusses aggregate results, identifies program successes and failures, as well as perceptions of the program from the perspective of administrative and direct care staff.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Bright, P., Fix, N.
  Date: July 2016
  Type: Report
• Oral Healthcare in North Dakota Long Term Care Facilities
  Examines survey results of oral healthcare in long term care facilities throughout North Dakota.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: June 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Dental Workforce in Rural and Urban North Dakota
  Examines dental health workforce in both rural and urban North Dakota.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Date: June 2016
  Type: Fact Sheet
• Changing Population Health Policy: A Model for Identifying Health Needs and Recommendations to Improve Health Status
  Article describes an objective assessment of the oral health environment in North Dakota as a model in identifying needs and providing policy recommendations to improve health outcomes.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S.
  Publication: Population Health Management, 19(3), 216-223
  Date: June 2016
  Type: Journal Article
• Oral Health Services and Barriers to Care in North Dakota Long Term Care Facilities: Chartbook
  Long term care facility staff completed a survey to identify current oral health practices, and barriers to providing oral healthcare to facility residents in North Dakota.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Bright, P.
  Date: March 2016
  Type: Report
• Brushing Up on Dental Care in North Dakota
  The Center for Rural Health makes recommendations based on a study of ways to improve North Dakotans’ oral health.
  Author(s): Massmann, N.
  Publication: North Dakota Medicine, 40(1), 20-21
  Date: March 2015
  Type: Magazine
• North Dakota Oral Health Report: Needs and Proposed Models, 2014
  Needs, outcomes, findings, and stakeholder recommendations from the 2014 assessment of oral health need and policy recommendations for North Dakota.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Jonk, Y., Schuller, K., Hall, K., Hart, G., Gibbens, B.
  Date: December 2014
  Type: Report
• North Dakota Oral Health Report: Needs and Proposed Models, 2014 Executive Summary
  Executive Summary for the full North Dakota Oral Health Report. Reviews the findings from the 2014 assessment of oral health in North Dakota.
  Author(s): Schroeder, S., Jonk, Y., Schuller, K., Hall, K., Hart, G., & Gibbens, B.
  Date: December 2014
  Type: Report
• Oral Health in Native American Elderly
  The National Resource Center on Native American Aging has released a fact sheet using nationwide data from “Identifying our Needs: A Survey of Elders.” Includes information on dental work needed and overall oral health indicators.
  Author(s): Hall, S., Stensland, P., Morin-Carter, P.
  Date: August 2014
  Type: Fact Sheet
• North Dakota Dentists Survey Results from the Health Profession Tracking Program
  Reports results from survey of North Dakota Dentists. Covers demographics, educational background, year of graduation, primary specialty, year began practicing, marketing the practice, hours worked in direct patient care, allocation of time, employment hours of dental hygienists, practice arrangement, retirement, recruitment, utilization of the North Dakota dental association website, patient profile, new patients by specialty, and Medicaid patient activity or Medicaid patient activity by rurality.
  Author(s): Amundson, M., Moulton, P., Beyer, M., Kruger, G., Speaker, K., Zavalney, B., & Monley, K.
  Date: March 2005
  Type: Report