by Caitlin Locklear | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog
Happy National Dental Hygienist week! The second week of every April, we celebrate the outstanding, dedicated, and selfless work dental hygienists do — inside and outside of clinical settings — to improve the oral health system. Here at CareQuest Institute, we’re...
by Caitlin Locklear | Apr 2, 2024 | Blog
Caries Management by Risk Assessment (CAMBRA) has existed for more than 20 years. But many oral health providers may be unfamiliar with why or how to use it. To help, Care Quest Institute and the American Dental Therapy Association recently partnered in an expert-led...
by Darren Edwards | Nov 28, 2023 | Publication
Oral Health and Overall Health Across the Lifespan This report from CareQuest Institute provides a comprehensive overview of the bidirectional nature of oral and systemic diseases across different life phases and discusses how medical-dental integration...
by Darren Edwards | Nov 14, 2023 | Journal Article
Which is more cost-effective to treat initial caries lesions — traditional restoration or noninvasive therapies? A study in the Journal of the American Dental Association finds that several noninvasive caries therapies improve outcomes for patients and are more...
by Darren Edwards | Sep 28, 2023 | Journal Article
A new study concludes that although health care providers have reduced opioid prescriptions for acute or chronic pain for patients at high risk for substance use disorder (SUD) — including those with mental health disorders (MHD) — opioid use for pain management has...
