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Expanding Oral Health in School and Community Settings

WEBThe Network's School Action Team develops innovative approaches and collaborative strategies to increase preventive oral health care for children in school and community settings. Educators, school nurses, dental hygienists, dentists, parent advocates, funders, state program leaders, policy makers, public health organizations—and more—are

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Integrating Oral Health into Primary Care

WEBA major goal of the Network’s efforts is the integration of oral health into primary care, especially to ensure access to prevention at well-child visits in the first years of life before many children are able to establish a dental home. COHN's Health Integration Action Team has been working on several initiatives to further this goal including:

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Virtual Dental Home

WEBVDH is a community-based oral health care delivery system in which children become established patients with a dental practice while receiving their preventive care and early intervention in community settings, such as daycare, school, and primary care. Based on experience in other states, we predict that 75% of the care that children need can

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Blueprint for Expanded School Oral Health Service Delivery

WEBMaine's current School Oral Health Program (SOHP) supports oral health preventive care in close to a third of the state's elementary schools. Network partners are developing the School Oral Health Blueprint to build on this foundation with the vision of expanding oral health services to all students in public schools statewide from pre-kindergarten to …

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Transforming Oral Health Systems to Serve all People in Maine

WEBThe Maine Oral Health Funders (MOHF), an affinity group of funders that first convened over 15 years ago, are part of an initiative to promote strategic systemic changes focused on improved oral health care access and quality for all people in Maine. The Network is joining forces with the MOHF on this critical initiative. In 2020 during the

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LD 1501: An Act to Protect Oral Health for Children in Maine

WEBLD 1501: An Act to Protect Oral Health for Children in Maine Sponsor: Rep. Lori Gramlich Voted unanimous OTP-A by HHS Committee 5/4/2021 LD 1501would:

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Connecting Schools to Oral Health Services

WEBThe Maine CDC School Oral Health Program, administered by MCD Global Health, provides foundational oral health services (screening, fluoride varnish, and oral health education) to children in Maine's public schools.There is more information about this program in their handbook, or you can email [email protected] to sign your school up for …

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2019 Maine School-based Oral Health Services Study

WEBCurrent Reach of School-based Oral Health Services. Overall, nearly three-quarters (71%) of public schools in the state of Maine currently offer some type of school-based oral health services directly to students. This includes 80% of all public elementary schools statewide and 40% of public high schools.

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Maine Dental Access Map

WEBThe sites on this map are options for Mainers with urgent or routine oral health needs who do not have an established dental home. All of these sites offer affordable sliding fee self-pay options as well as MaineCare and commercial insurance, unless otherwise noted. As of July 1, 2022 MaineCare covers full dental care for adults , …

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Children's 2021 ANNUAL Oral Health Network of Maine REPORT

WEBwww.mainecohn.org 5 Expanding Oral Health Services in Schools and Community Settings Goal: Every Maine student, from pre-K to high school graduation, can receive the full range of oral health care services through a coordinated system—sustainably supported

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School-Based Oral Health Toolkit

WEBSchool-Based Oral Health Toolkit A Resource for School Nurses 9THEXIH(IGIQFIV

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