• Time:10 - 11 AM PDT
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The Oral Health of American Indian and Alaska Native Dental Clinic Patients Aged 1 to 5 Years: Results of the 2024–2025 Indian Health Service Oral Health Survey

Attend a special webinar on February 18th at 10am PDT; Dr. Kathy Phipps and CDR David Burke will present key findings from the 2024-2025 IHS Oral Health Data Brief and provide recommendations on how to improve oral health outcomes for 1–5-year-old children. 

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1.    Identify one key finding from the 2024-2025 IHS Oral Health Data Brief [1-5-year-olds]
2.    Recognize that dental sealants on primary molars are an underutilized preventive service.
3.    Apply evidence-based prevention strategies to address early childhood caries [ECC].

This training will provide dentists, dental hygienists, and dental health aide therapists with the results to the 2024-2025 survey on 1-5 year-olds.

Starting in 2010, the Indian Health Service began annual oral health surveillance that have helped highlight disparities in dental disease among the AI/AN population and have helped show improvement in certain age groups [1-5 and 6-9 year-olds]. Many participating IHS, tribal, and urban clinics have used these reports and their local data to better prioritize care in their clinics or apply for additional funding from internal and external sources.

Read the recently published, 2024-2025 Oral Health Data Brief of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Dental Clinic Patients Aged 1 to 5 Years and explore other oral health data briefs on the IHS Dental Portal