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Utilization of a Mobile Dental Vehicle for Oral Healthcare in Rural Areas
Oral diseases remain one of the major global public health challenges, and the worldwide urban–rural disparities in oral health are significant. Residents in rural areas generally suffer from a higher prevalence and severity of dental caries and periodontal disease, yet they face numerous difficulti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480282/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30959954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071234 |
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author | Gao, Sherry Shiqian Yon, Madeline Jun Yu Chen, Kitty Jieyi Duangthip, Duangporn Lo, Edward Chin Man Chu, Chun Hung |
author_facet | Gao, Sherry Shiqian Yon, Madeline Jun Yu Chen, Kitty Jieyi Duangthip, Duangporn Lo, Edward Chin Man Chu, Chun Hung |
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description | Oral diseases remain one of the major global public health challenges, and the worldwide urban–rural disparities in oral health are significant. Residents in rural areas generally suffer from a higher prevalence and severity of dental caries and periodontal disease, yet they face numerous difficulties and barriers in accessing oral healthcare. Conventional strategies, such as building of dental clinics or, hospitals, or the provision of outreach services by using disposable materials, are neither practical nor effective in rural settings. Mobile dental vehicles (MDVs) have been proposed as an alternative strategy to supplement the traditional oral healthcare in many regions. They have usually been utilized in school-based oral health programs, providing dental care to the homeless or migrants, and screening programs for the population for various oral diseases. Due to their high mobility, MDVs are particularly valuable for the underserved populations living in rural areas. The advance of dental devices enables MDVs to be operated in a self-sufficient manner. This allows the MDV to function almost as well as a conventional dental clinic, providing a variety of dental treatments, including scaling, restoration, and oral surgery. This article discusses the use of MDVs as a solution to urban–rural inequality in receiving oral healthcare. |
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spelling | pubmed-64802822019-04-29 Utilization of a Mobile Dental Vehicle for Oral Healthcare in Rural Areas Gao, Sherry Shiqian Yon, Madeline Jun Yu Chen, Kitty Jieyi Duangthip, Duangporn Lo, Edward Chin Man Chu, Chun Hung Int J Environ Res Public Health Project Report Oral diseases remain one of the major global public health challenges, and the worldwide urban–rural disparities in oral health are significant. Residents in rural areas generally suffer from a higher prevalence and severity of dental caries and periodontal disease, yet they face numerous difficulties and barriers in accessing oral healthcare. Conventional strategies, such as building of dental clinics or, hospitals, or the provision of outreach services by using disposable materials, are neither practical nor effective in rural settings. Mobile dental vehicles (MDVs) have been proposed as an alternative strategy to supplement the traditional oral healthcare in many regions. They have usually been utilized in school-based oral health programs, providing dental care to the homeless or migrants, and screening programs for the population for various oral diseases. Due to their high mobility, MDVs are particularly valuable for the underserved populations living in rural areas. The advance of dental devices enables MDVs to be operated in a self-sufficient manner. This allows the MDV to function almost as well as a conventional dental clinic, providing a variety of dental treatments, including scaling, restoration, and oral surgery. This article discusses the use of MDVs as a solution to urban–rural inequality in receiving oral healthcare. MDPI 2019-04-07 2019-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6480282/ /pubmed/30959954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071234 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Project Report Gao, Sherry Shiqian Yon, Madeline Jun Yu Chen, Kitty Jieyi Duangthip, Duangporn Lo, Edward Chin Man Chu, Chun Hung Utilization of a Mobile Dental Vehicle for Oral Healthcare in Rural Areas |
title | Utilization of a Mobile Dental Vehicle for Oral Healthcare in Rural Areas |
title_full | Utilization of a Mobile Dental Vehicle for Oral Healthcare in Rural Areas |
title_fullStr | Utilization of a Mobile Dental Vehicle for Oral Healthcare in Rural Areas |
title_full_unstemmed | Utilization of a Mobile Dental Vehicle for Oral Healthcare in Rural Areas |
title_short | Utilization of a Mobile Dental Vehicle for Oral Healthcare in Rural Areas |
title_sort | utilization of a mobile dental vehicle for oral healthcare in rural areas |
topic | Project Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480282/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30959954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071234 |
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