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Health Screening Program Being Retooled
Dentists have long relied on the ADA Foundation Health Screening Program (HSP) to monitor their personal health and the overall health of the dental profession. Loyal participants of the HSP, which has been offered at Annual Session for 45 years, will notice that we are taking a year off in 2008 to retool this popular program and bring you an even better HSP at Annual Session in 2009. The ADA is updating the HSP to ensure that it will continue to meet your needs. Look for future updates on this page and in ADA Publications. The HSP will be back at the 2009 Annual Session in Honolulu. We hope to see you there!
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What is the Health Screening Program?
For more than 40 years, the ADA Foundation Health Screening Program has helped dental care providers monitor their health while making the dental office safer for the dental team and their patients. Participants in the Health Screening Program will receive state-of-the art screenings for a variety of occupational health concerns.
In addition, the Health Screening Program conducts a scientific assessment of specific provider and patient safety issues. This information helps educate and guide the profession on topics and policies related to risk assessment and disease management and prevention. |
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- over 60,000 dental professionals have participated in the HSP since the program started in 1964.
- the HSP was first to discover that Hepatitis B was an occupational hazard for the dental team.
- no other screening program collects data specific to the risks that dental professionals face.
- the HSP offers a complimentary screening program to dentists, hygienists and chairside assistants.
- since 1975 investigators have published over 50 articles in peer reviewed journals based upon data obtained from the HSP.
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Health Screening Program Mission
The ADA Foundation Health Screening Program strives to ensure the safety of dental professionals and their patients through scientific research on the occupational risks of the profession. The HSP monitors the health of the dental profession while advancing scientific research by:
- Collecting, analyzing and disseminating information on the occupational health risks of dental professionals
- Partnering with scientific peers across industry in the basic, applied and clinical research of key dental issues
- Providing a forum for dental researchers to assess new technology and to educate the profession
- Providing a valuable health service to participants
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2007 Sponsors
The ADA Foundation gratefully acknowledges the following organizations for their generous contributions to the 2007 Health Screening Program:
The Procter & Gamble Company; Colgate-Palmolive Company, Technology Center; Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.; Patterson Foundation; AXA-Equitable Life Assurance Society; Church & Dwight Co.; Sullivan-Schein, a Henry Schein Company; Aetna Dental; Delta Dental; GlaxoSmithKline; Matsco Co.; Sunstar Americas, Inc.; Air Techniques; Waterpik Technologies; SmartPractice; Crosstex International, Inc.; DiaSorin, Inc.; Hu-Friedy; Nordent Manufacturing Company; Porter Instrument Company, Inc,; Premier Dental; UCLA School of Dentistry and American Dental Supply.
The ADA Foundation also gratefully acknowledges the following organizations for their donations of equipment, materials and services to the 2007 HSP:
A-dec, Inc.; Alliance of the American Dental Association; American Dental Association, Division of Science; Belmont Equipment Corp.; Cabrillo College, Dental Hygiene Program; Chabot College, Dental Hygiene Program; Crosstex International, Inc.; Department of Veterans Affairs; Diablo Valley College, Dental Hygiene Program; Foothill College, Dental Hygiene Program; Oralscan™ Laboratories, Inc.; Patterson Dental Company; SmartPractice; Sullivan-Schein, a Henry Schein Company; Tyco Healthcare / Kendall and the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene Program.
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Past Participants' Stories
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