NEWS
07/20/09 - Weintraub to Receive Faculty Research Award
Jane Weintraub, DDS, MPH, the Lee Hysan Professor and Chair, Division of Oral Epidemiology and Dental Public Health at the UCSF School of Dentistry, will be honored with the 2009 Faculty Research Award for her outstanding achievement in the field of science related to oral and craniofacial health.
Weintraub also serves as director of the Center to Address Disparities in Children’s Oral Health, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
http://today.ucsf.edu/stories/weintraub-to-receive-faculty-research-award/
12/18/08 - UCSF receives $24.4 million to fight early childhood cavities
The UCSF School of Dentistry has received the largest grant in its history: $24.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to address socio-economic and cultural disparities in oral health.
The seven-year grant, which is funded through the NIH National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, will enable the UCSF Center to Address Disparities in Children’s Oral Health (nicknamed CAN DO) to launch new programs in preventing early childhood tooth decay
http://news.ucsf.edu/releases/ucsf-receives-24.4-million-to-fight-early-childhood-cavities/
12/16/08 - UCSF Offers Insight into Health Care Disparities Research
Dr. Weintraub along with other UCSF researchers from a wide range of disciplines recently shared their work to address health disparities during a symposium
http://diversity.ucsf.edu/news/stories/ucsf-offers-insight-into-health-care-disparities-research
06/25/08 - California Program for Access to Care celebrated its 10th Anniversary in September 2007 and listed its major accomplishments including that CPAC served as a catalyst for improvements in Children’s Dental Care (1998-2002).
Dr Francisco Ramos-Gomez named as "an instrumental leader" in the campaign for children's dental care.
http://www.ucop.edu/cpac/documents/accomplishments.pdf
03/18/08 - Hispanics: The untapped market
http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=nws&sub=rad&pag=dis&ItemId=300451&wf=34
06/22/07 - CA Assembly Bill to Expand Preventative Dental Services for Children
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a18/press/2007032AD188/press/2007327AD18PR01.htm
05/01/07 - Toothe Dacay Seen Increasing for Young Children
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN3042961520070501
02/01/07 - National Maternal Child Oral Health Resource Center:Knowledge Path:Oral Health and Children and Adolescents
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/knwpathoralhealth.html
01/25/07 - Dr. Ramos-Gomez gave a training session on Early Childhood Caries Prevention in Humboldt County at the Native
American Community Health Center.
http://eurekareporter.com/node/82928
08/30/06 - Fluoride Varnish Application Covered Under Medi-Cal Program for Children under
6 Years Old
http://www.cspd.org/news/message.asp?news_id=330
03/22/06 - Children's Oral Health: Closing the Gaps - 03/22/06 webcast archive
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/webcastmar06.htm#children
03/07/06 - KQED's Forum discusses the high incidence of dental disease in California children.
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R603071000
02/07/06 - Fluoride Varnish Study covered in the New York Times
Dental Health: Fluoride Varnish Found to Cut Cavities in Children
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
As little as one fluoride varnish treatment a year can cut the cavity rate in half for infants and small
children, according to new research. The treatment is easy to administer and has no known side effects.
The varnish is a fluoride compound that is brushed directly onto the teeth. Researchers randomly
assigned 376 children to receive parental counseling and no treatment, two fluoride treatments at one-
year intervals, or four fluoride treatments at six-month intervals over the two-year course of the study.
All the children, ranging in age from 6 months to 3½ years, had at least four teeth, and no cavities.
At the end of the study, published in the February issue of The Journal of Dental Research, children who
had no fluoride treatments were more than twice as likely to have had a cavity as those who had yearly
treatments, and almost four times as likely to have one as those who had had treatments at six-month
intervals.
Jane A. Weintraub, the lead author on the study and a professor in the School of Dentistry of the
University of California, San Francisco, said the treatment was inexpensive and easy to carry out.
"Other methods are difficult with 1-year-olds," she said. "Dental sealants, other types of topical fluorides
and mouth rinses are all harder to use with young children."
The researchers said they had no difficulty gaining cooperation with the treatment, even with infants.
The original article can be read on the New York Times website at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/health/07dent.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
The UCSF press release is available online:
http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/news/200601302.html
Extramural Loan Repayment Programs for Clinical and Pediatric Researchers
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08/28/05 - First Smiles training is available online
We are happy to announce that as of today, First Smiles training is available online. The First Smiles
Online Course takes about two hours to complete and is offered in two customized versions, one for
dental and one for medical professionals. To view this new, state-of-the-art training modality, visit our
First Smiles homepage, www.first5oralhealth.org, and click on the blue lettering in the center of your
screen that says NEW! Free, 2-unit continuing education course.
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