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Title: The Whole Tooth


1
The Whole Tooth Nothing But The Truth
  • Presented to you by
  • The Ontario Oral Health Alliance

2
The Whole Truth
  • Presented to you
  • _________________
  • Insert your coalition here

3
Ontario Oral Health Alliance
  • Geographic groups
  • Hastings
  • Prince Edward
  • Kingston
  • Northumberland
  • Ottawa
  • Peterborough
  • Toronto
  • Haliburton
  • Lennox Addington
  • Halton
  • Organizations
  • VON
  • Public Health Units
  • Community Health Centers
  • Long Term Care Homes
  • Social Services
  • Ontario Association for Public Health Dentistry
  • Dental Professionals
  • General Public

4
Oral Health Defined
  • A state of the oral and related tissues and
    structures that contributes positively to
    physical, mental and social well-being and the
    enjoyment of lifes possibilities, by allowing
    the individual to speak, eat and socialize
    unhindered by pain, discomfort or embarrassment.
  • Canadian Dental Association httpwww.cda-adc.ca

5
Our Vision
  • A system that allows for equitable
  • dental care for all Ontarians

6
Our Collective Mission
  • To advocate for a continuum
  • of oral health for everyone
  • Oral Health Promotion
  • Disease Prevention
  • Timely Access to Care

7
Strategic Actions
  • Creating awareness
  • Educating general public
  • Providing limited interim access to services
    (band-aid solution)
  • Influencing government policy to improve access
    to services

8
Todays Objective
  • To raise awareness that

9
The Mouth is part of the Body!
10
Inequities exist in our system
11
Improving access to oral care is a priority!
12
Background Information
  • One third of residents of Ontario DO NOT see a
    dentist on a regular basis (Matear D, Locker D.
    Oral disorders, systemic health, well-being and
    the quality of life. Community Dental Health
    Services Research Unit. Faculty of Dentistry,
    University of Toronto 2000)
  • Barriers exist that prevent many people in our
    communities from accessing dental care
  • Cost is the most common serious barrier

13
Inverse Care Law
  • Individuals with the greatest need for
  • services will be those with the least
  • ability to pay for services.
  • Webb E. Children and the inverse care law. BMJ
    1998 3161588-1591.

14
Inequalities in Oral Care
  • 52 of Canadians and 60 of Ontarians have
  • some form of dental insurance
  • BUT
  • Not all insurance plans are created equal
  • Matear D, Locker D. 2000

15
What Is Available For Ontarios Children?
16
Dental Care for Children
  • Children (up to age 13) from low-income
    families
  • Urgent dental treatment (Health Unit)
  • Children (up to age 18) who are dependents of
    Ontario Works or Ontario Disability Support
    Program recipients
  • Basic dental treatment

17
What Is Available For Ontarios Adults?
18
Dental Services for Adults
  • General Public
  • No government program is available
  • Ontario Disability Support Program recipients
  • Basic care
  • Ontario Works recipients
  • Discretionary coverage only that may include
  • Emergency care
  • Preventive care (expectant mothers)

19
A Serious Gap Exists for
  • Adults Families earning minimum wage (including
    those with partial insurance)
  • Older Adults

20
The problem
  • Unresolved dental issues lead to a host of
    problems
  • Physical
  • Psychological
  • Social
  • Economic

21
Affects Everyone
  • Children Youth
  • Adults
  • Older adults

22
Affect On A Child
  • Pain infection
  • A failure to thrive (Matear D, Locker D. 2000)
  • Negative impact on healthy development
    readiness to learn
  • Long term impact on school success success in
    life!

23
Early Childhood Tooth Decay Graphic used with
permission from the Halton Region Health Unit
24
For Want of a Dentist
  • Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a
    toothache ...
  • a routine, 80 tooth extraction might have saved
    himWashington Post, Wed Feb 28, 2007

25
An Adults Story
  • Jason Jones
  • A mouthful of decayed teeth
  • Unable to eat solid foods and
  • Unable to find employment

26
Toronto Star, Feb 10, 2007
27
Case Study Of An Older Adult
  • Maureens story
  • Fixed income
  • Problems chewing (eating properly) and
    socializing
  • General health compromised

28
Gum Disease
29
The Lack of Access to Oral Treatment Care
An Economic Burden on Ontarios Society
30
A clear Need For Action
  • Its expensive.
  • But its expensive not to do it
  • As stated by Minister Meilleur, Ontario Minister
    of Community and Social Services (February 11,
    2007, Toronto Star)

31
Whats Being Done Now?
32
Some Examples
  • Chief Dental Officer of Health (i.e. National
    Survey)
  • Coalitions partnerships
  • Probono work (cannot rely on volunteers to fix
    the problem)

33
The Toronto Star War on Poverty Series (2007)
  • Why is he out of work Feb 10
  • Readers respond to a mans plight Feb 11
  • Man amazed by dental care offers Feb 13
  • Price tag to fix smiles 2M Feb 22
  • Health minister silent on dental care Feb 23
  • Plunged into darkness April 28
  • He has a new smile system still in decay
  • June 23

34
Toronto Star Headlines continued
  • Dental care should be an election issue, says
    coalition July 3
  • NDP set to unveil 100M dental program July 10
  • Dental care turns into a hot vote issue July 11
  • Liberals trump NDP dental announcement July 10
  • Liberals vow 45M for low-income dental plan
  • Sept 5
  • Poor to get dental plan Nov 27

35
Ontario Government Investment
  • Investment of 135 million
  • over three years for a
  • Dental Program for
  • low-income persons

36
Recommendations to Government
37
Ultimate Goal
  • Equitable access to oral care
  • for all Ontarians

38
Small Steps Forward
  • Ontario Government funding
  • is a critical first step forward

39
Equitable Dental Care for All
  • All Ontarians should have FAIR EQUITABLE access
    to PREVENTIVE DENTAL CARE BASIC DENTAL
    TREATMENT

40
Equitable Compensation
  • FAIR EQUITABLE compensation for dentists must
    be addressed to facilitate FAIR EQUITABLE
    access to services

41
OOHAs recommendations
  • Ensure ALL children have access to a basic dental
    program
  • Offer basic dental services to priority groups
    one at a time
  • Pregnant women
  • Low income individuals, seniors and families
  • Include coverage for children whose families
    have partial
  • insurance but are unable to pay the uninsured
    portion

42
Alternate Models of Service Delivery
  • Include primary oral health care services within
    Ontario
  • Community Health Centres
  • (existing and soon to be established)

43
Continued action from all levels of
government is NECESSARYto guarantee a BASIC
level of oral health for ALL Ontarians.
44
The Ontario Oral Health AlliancePartners Shaping
the Smiles of Ontario Everyone Has The Right
To A Healthy Smile
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