1. Best Practices for State & Local Oral Health Programs
ASTDD Best Practice Website
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Optimal oral health across the lifespan…
March 2010

2. Association of State & Territorial State Dental Directors (ASTDD) Best Practices Project
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ASTDD Best Practices Project serves as an information broker for best practice information for state and local oral health programs. In this role, the Project post Web-based resources on the ASTDD Website.

3. ASTDD Website: www.astdd.org
Click “Best Practices” Tab to open the Best Practices Homepage
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On the ASTDD Homepage, at click on the Best Practice link to open a Front Page for Best Practice information.

4. Best Practices Homepage
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The Front Page offers access to view BP Approach Reports & other resource information.
View Best Practice Approach Reports

5. Index Listing of Best Practice Approach Reports
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In opening the Index Listing page, you can view a full listing of the 9 Best Practice Approach Reports currently posted. New reports will be added as the ASTDD Best Practice Project completes more analyses.

6. A Best Practice Approach Report
State Oral Health Plans & Collaborative Planning
Table of Contents
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Clicking a link for a specific Best Practice Approach Report will open a the Report’s Table of Contents page. Each Report organizes information in a standard format that include a description of the dental public health strategy, a review of guidelines and recommendations, a summary of research evidence, best practice criteria, and a collection of practice examples.
Additional links of interest, publications and tools are included in the Table of Contents page.

7. A Best Practice Approach Report
State Oral Health Plans & Collaborative Planning
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Clicking on the Section Headings listed in the Table of Content will open the report. You can view the report in html and save a copy in PDF.
Here is an example of a Best Practice Approach Report on the “State Oral Health Plans and Collaborative Planning.”

8. Best Practices Homepage
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The Best Practices Front Page offers access to detailed descriptions of state and community practice examples, which are used to illustrate Best Practice Approaches. This link opens to an index listing.
View State & Community Practice Examples

9. Index Listing of Practice Examples
Practice Examples Listed by Best Practice Approach
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The Index list practice examples sorted by Best Practice Approach.

10. Successful Practice Descriptions
Nevada’s State Oral Health Plan
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Clicking on a “Practice Name” link opens a descriptive report of the successful practice. The description includes information on the history, justification, activities, outputs and outcomes of the practice. The description also includes information on how the practice is effective, efficient, and sustainable.

11. Best Practices Homepage
Emergent Issues for Dental Public Health
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The Best Practices Front Page offers access to information on emergent issues for dental public health. Oral health programs can reflect on emergent issues when planning, expanding, and/or improving services.

12. Emergent Issues in Dental Public Health
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Here is the Webpage on emergent issues. A list of issues identified by state dental directors is provided. Ideas from an ad hoc group (voices of end-users) are summarized, and hot links are given for selected topics related to emergent issues.
Offers a list of emergent issues
identified by state dental directors

13. Best Practices Homepage
State of the Science
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The Best Practices Front Page also offers access to information on the State of the Science for oral health strategies and interventions. Information that can support the development of best practices.

14. Oral Health Strategies & Interventions State of the Science for
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Here is the page on State of the Science for Oral Health Strategies & Interventions. This page offers links to evidence-based efforts (such as systematic reviews) and journal articles on topics such as fluoridation, fluoride varnish, dental sealants and xylitol.

15. Best Practices Homepage
State Dental Public Health Activities
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The Best Practices Front Page also provides access to view a collection of summaries on various state dental public health activities.

16. State Dental Public Health Activities
Search collection of summaries by topic, by key words, or by state.
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Here is the page on State Dental Public Health Activities. You can search the collection of summaries by topic, by key words, or by state. Each summary include contact information for inquiries. This establishes a support network of field experts.

17. State Dental Public Health Activities
Listing of Arizona’s dental public health activities.
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You can search the collection by topic, by key words or by state. Search results will display a list of practices.

18. State Dental Public Health Activities
Arizona’s financial support for community fluoridation.
Contact information provides a support network.
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Each summary include contact information for inquiries, offering a support network of field experts.

19. Best Practices Homepage
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One more feature to highlight on the Best Practices Front Page: the “Resource Links.”
Resource Links

20. Resource Links
Resource links to guidelines, recommendations and evidence-based practices.
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Here is the Resource Links page. Resource Links include Websites and publications for guidelines, recommendations, and evidence-based practices. The page includes a hot link to the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center’s resource materials.