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Key Points
- To be effective, school-based dental sealants must (1) provide high-quality sealants with good retention rates, (2) serve children at higher risk for dental caries, and (3) apply sealants efficiently, so that as many children as possible receive sealants.
- For programs, the objective of targeting is to provide sealants to the largest possible number of children at higher risk for dental caries.
- Making a program more efficient results in more children receiving sealants each day, which in turn leads to completing a school in fewer days and serving more schools during a school year.
- Quality assessment for programs is the process of evaluating them to ensure that they are meeting the goal of efficiently applying high-quality sealants to the teeth of children at higher risk for dental caries.
- When designing a program, it is important to know about requirements specified in the state’s dental practice act and rules and regulations.
- A large proportion of children at schools with sealant programs are expected to be Medicaid beneficiaries.
- ODH sets requirements and monitors the compliance of the programs it funds.
- ODH conducts both comprehensive and focused site reviews.
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