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October 2005, Vol 95, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1677-1678
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.073924

EDITORIAL

Improving the Oral Health of Prisoners to Improve Overall Health and Well-Being

Henrie M. Treadwell, PhD and Allan J. Formicola, DDS

Henrie M. Treadwell is with the Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. Allan J. Formicola is with the Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery, New York, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Henrie M. Treadwell, PhD, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Dr SW, Suite 216, Atlanta, GA 30310 (e-mail: htreadwell@msm.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
General health and oral health are linked. The surgeon general’s report on the state of the nation’s oral health indicates that you can’t have one without the other. The same report notes that while the oral health of the nation improved significantly over the 20th century, there are major disparities in oral health among subpopulations.1 The formal call for papers for this issue of the Journal yielded no papers on oral health in the prison system. A review of the literature in PubMed turned up very few published articles on the oral health of prisoners or systems to provide prisoners . . . [Full Text]


   ORAL HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE GENERAL POPULATION
 

   ORAL HEALTH STATUS OF THE PRISON POPULATION
 

   OBSTACLES TO PROVISION OF ORAL HEALTH CARE
 

   THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY
 



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