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New best practice approaches
Reports cover school-based oral health programs, early childhood caries
The Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors Best Practices Committee has released two new reports covering best practice approaches to early childhood caries and school-based oral health programs.
The new reports, available on the ASTDD website, were developed in collaboration with the ASTDD School and Adolescent Oral Health Committee and the Children's Dental Health Project.
The ASTDD Best Practices Project promotes best practices for state, territorial and community oral health programs. Best Practice Approaches reports are designed to help programs develop their best practices within the context of their environment and facilitate achieving Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Objectives and meeting the National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health.
Best Practice Approach reports include public health strategies for state and community oral health programs that are supported by research, expert opinion, field lessons and theoretical rationale for impact and effectiveness. Best practice approaches may have different but successful implementation methods, such as program activities and operations, which emphasize efficiency, sustainability, collaboration or integration.
State and community success stories are also available online to illustrate successful implementation of best practice approaches.
For more information, log on to www.astdd.org.
