October 2021 JADA 

The authors assess preventive oral health care use for children with special health care needs aged 6 through 12 years enrolled in Medicaid and identify intervention strategies to improve oral health.

The authors assess dental therapists’ motivations, practice settings, incomes, satisfaction levels, and their opinions about dental therapy education and regulations.

The authors assess the impact of state Medicaid reform on the dental practice environment by examining provider activity and practice setting.

The authors examine the cost-effectiveness of light-polymerized resin-based fluoride sealants on primary molars in high caries risk children younger than 6 years.

The authors compare the efficacy of ozone therapy with a placebo or control in reducing postsurgical complications associated with the surgical extraction of impacted mandibular third molars.

The authors present cases and provide recommendations about when to extract or retain root remnants and broken teeth in frail older adults.

The authors ask readers to diagnose the case of a 60-year-old woman with a painful ulceration on the right buccal mucosa near the commissure of several weeks’ duration.