Dental health care for mentally and physically handicapped children can be improved by cooperation between teachers, parents, and dentists who are willing and able to handle their special problems. (JD)

The article describes a survey of 36 dental education programs to identify educators' reactive policies and procedures in their patient treatment centers to minimize dental contamination and cross-contamination. (Author/CT)

In a speech presented at the Annual Session of the American School Health Association, Houston 1970, the author concludes that organizing dental health programs with regard to contents as well as activities will help make the demands for good dental health and the change in behavior that is needed seem reasonable. (Author/BY)

A professor in the Division of Learning Resources, School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, discusses the importance of dentists' considering individual patient characteristics and of individualizing their instruction of patients in preventive therapy. (MF)

Focusing dental efforts on hard-core and high-risk smokers can decrease smoking prevalence. Challenges to the dental profession include professional legitimacy, dental professional education, defining special populations, and overcoming barriers to access. Opportunities include strategic placement, strategic relations with those serving high-risk…

A discussion of the need for better research on women's health looks at significant gender differences that are factors in health and health education (longevity, poverty, use of medical services, doctor-patient interaction, and women in dentistry) as well aspects of research methodology that need improvement. (MSE)

Dental health education can be an integral part of the school curriculum, even when there are constraints on time and money and a formal health instruction program is lacking. Under these less than ideal circumstances, dental health education may be correlated at all grade levels with instruction in other subjects including, but not limited to,…

The document is one of the teaching units developed by the Utah World of Work Project, designed to integrate career awareness into the regular curriculum at the elementary level. The fifth grade guide is tied to the health education area and focuses on the work of the orthodontist in terms of understanding what an orthodontist does, learning what…