OBJECTIVE: Washington State's Access to Baby and Child Dent stry (ABCD) Program, first
implemented in Spokane County in 1995, offers extended dental benefits to participating …

Abstract Objectives: The Access to Baby and Child Dentistry (ABCD) Program addresses the
needs of families in obtaining dental care. In this study, the program was evaluated in rural …

OBJECTIVES: The authors present second-year utilization data and first-and second-year
cost data for a community-based program in Spokane County, Washington, designed to …

Objectives The authors estimated the effectiveness of the Access to Baby and Child
Dentistry (ABCD) program as a tool to improve the oral health of children, and they …

Background The authors present a two-year evaluation of a dental society–managed dental
care program in Washington state. A variation of the Access to Baby and Child Dentistry, or …

Background Access to dental services for low-income children is limited. Front-office
personnel play a role regarding dentists' participation in the Medicaid program. Methods …

Eighty-one percent of general dentists and 86 percent of pediatric dentists who are members
of the local dental society in Spokane County, Washington, participated in a pilot program to …

ABSTRACT Background In 2000, Michigan's Medicaid dental program initiated Healthy Kids
Dental, or HKD, a demonstration program offering dental coverage to Medicaid-enrolled …

Purpose: The purposes of this survey were to assess barriers to utilization of dental services
among Medicaid-enrolled Alabama children and identify families who used or did not use …

Alabama faced an oral health crisis, with decreasing dental provider participation and
increasing enrollment of Medicaid‐eligible children. In response, the Smile Alabama …