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January 2010, Vol 100, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 88-89
© 2010 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.157230

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Dental Examinations as an Untapped Opportunity to Provide HIV Testing for High-Risk Individuals

Harold A. Pollack, PhD, Lisa R. Metsch, PhD and Stephen Abel, DDS

Harold A. Pollack is with the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. Lisa R. Metsch is with the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Developmental Center for AIDS Research, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. Stephen Abel is with the College of Dental Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Ft Lauderdale, FL.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Harold Pollack, PhD, School of Social Service Administration, Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago, 969 East 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637 (e-mail: haroldp{at}uchicago.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

We used data from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey to examine the potential role of dental care in reaching untested individuals at self-reported risk for HIV. An estimated 3.6 million Americans report that they are at significant HIV risk yet have never been HIV tested. Three quarters of these people have seen a dentist within the past 2 years. Dental care offers opportunities to serve at-risk individuals who are otherwise unlikely to be tested or to receive preventive care services.






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