The New Hampshire Public Health Association (NHPHA) supports access to preventive and therapeutic oral care for all. While there have been recent efforts to improve access to professional oral care for New Hampshire's indigent, access remains a major problem for many of the State’s high risk populations such as children and the elderly.  The NHPHA supports innovative initiatives that promote improved health status including the following oral health services:

• Increased access to evidenced based screening and preventive care; 
• Education; 
• Fluoridation; 
• Increased access to dental care and application of dental sealants; 
• Appropriate restorative care.

Resources:

Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, Building Infrastructure and Capacity in State and Territorial Oral Health Programs (April 2000). http://www.astdd.org/d...rastructure.pdf

Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, “Best Practice Approaches for State and Community Oral Health Programs: Oral Health of Children, Adolescents and
Adults with Special Health Care Needs” (April 17, 2007) http://www.astdd.org/d...pecialNeeds.pdf

Mouradian WE, Huebner CE, Ramos-Gomez F, Slavkin HC, “Beyond Access:  The Role of Family and Community in Children's Oral Health,” Journal of Dental Education 71: 5 (May 2007) 619-31. 

Redmond, AR and Martin N., “Provision of School-based Preventive Oral Health Services to Medicaid Beneficiaries,” Preventing Chronic Disease 3:1 (January 2006 January) A28.  
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General.” May, 25, 2000. http://www.surgeongene...ary/oralhealth/

US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Impact of Targeted, School-Based Dental Sealant Programs in Reducing Racial and Economic Disparities in Sealant Prevalence Among Schoolchildren --- Ohio, 1998—1999,”Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 50:34 (August 31, 2001) 736-738.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,  Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research,  National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health  (January 11, 2007)  http://www.surgeongene...alltoaction.htm