2008 DTAF Grant Recipients

Apple Tree Dental

Apple Tree Dental, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is launching Apple Tree Dental Longevity Plan which will provide a specially tailored set of dental services to seniors and frail elders living in long-term care settings. This program will increase access to oral healthcare for this group, a rapidly growing and underserved population.

University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine

The CARES Program will provide social work services to patients in the pediatric dental clinic and their families, in order to remove barriers to dental care and increase patient access and retention. The program will engage in community outreach in traditionally marginalized communities to make families aware of the availability of services in the pediatric dental clinic, as well as to educate families about the need for regular and preventative dental care for children.

University of California, School of Dentistry

The University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry will develop, implement and evaluate a train-the-trainers program of non-dental prenatal care providers with the public health clinics system. "Oral Health Promotion During Pregnacy in a Group Prenatal Care Model" nicknamed "CPOP", will train providers to incorporate oral health assessments, education and referrals into the prenatal appointments with the pregnant patients.

University of Washington School of Dentistry

The central focus of this Seattle, Washington project is to provide an update on the status of the oral health of America and changes that have taken place as a result of the 2000 Surgeon General's report on oral health. The resulting update will be presented by Dr. David Satcher in a keynote to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The goal is to identify next steps in implementing solutions to the updated report on oral health.