This guide is designed to assist health professionals in evaluating medical and dental considerations for treating people with HIV in the era of ART. Oral health professionals play a critical role in...
Recorded April 17, 2020, this session reviewed the following:
Slides from a presentation on oral healthcare challenges for patients and providers during COVID-19. The slides include information on patient and provider anxiety and offer practical guidance for den...
This is the third version of Oral health affects your whole body. It’s an important part of your HIV care patient brochure. First published nearly 20 years ago, it was the first of its kind to promot...
This presentation is designed for oral health providers. It covers the following:
The slide set is for self-directed learning and downloadable for training purposes. The content addresses the following objectives:
1. Review the categories of oral sexually transmitted infections (STI...
(recorded 10/24/20) This two-hour workshop provides an interprofessional update on HIV oral health issues and the role of medical, dental, and case managers and others in assuring access to safe oral...
This updated dental brochure provides guidance for oral health providers caring for people with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an overview of COVID-19 and the relationship between oral...
To address the importance of oral health and reduce oral health disparities for people with HIV, HRSA HAB identified challenges, best practices, and strategies implemented by RWHAP recipients to integ...
Recorded on June 26th, 2020
Recording of Kathy Eklund, RDH, MHP, virtually presenting on Infection Control and Sterility Assurance in the dental setting on June 26th, 2020...
Recorded on June 24, 2020
This recording of Kathy Eklund, RDH MHP provides an update on Infection Prevention & Control in Dentistry, Interim Guidance and Planning for the Post-Pandemic Dental Pract...
(Recorded December 2020) This webinar reviews the categories of oral sexually transmitted infections (STIs), identifies oral manifestations of STIs, and discusses the difference of oral STIs in people...
The course explains the links between oral health and COVID-19, addresses patient and staff concerns about COVID-19 safety measures, reviews COVID-19 vaccines and implications for people with HIV, and...
Training slides highlight the importance of overall oral health and provide information on how to assist patients in recognizing their oral health needs, How to incorporating basic oral health assessm...
(Recorded on 1/11/22)
Persons with HIV are protected by a variety of state and federal laws against discrimination, especially in places of public accommodation. The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Ac...
Training slides provide tips for helping patients prepare for their dental visits and addressing fear in dental patients.
This two-page fact sheet features the latest research-based information on Methamphetamine. Included are multiple tips that HIV clinicians can use when dealing with methamphetamine abusers. Also incl...
These Integrating HIV Innovative Practices (IHIP) training resources synthesize lessons learned from the federally funded Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Innovations in Oral Health Ca...
This training manual synthesizes lessons learned from the federally funded Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Innovations in Oral Health Care Initiative (Oral Health Initiative), and has...
People with HIV experience a high incidence of common oral health problems (e.g., dental decay/cavities, gingivitis) as well as other oral health problems that are directly related to HIV infection. B...
The HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) of HRSA has developed a series of clinical performance indicators for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program-funded clinics as part of its quality improvement efforts. The AETC program...
Upon watching this video viewers will :
This document provides key recommendations for implementing an HIV testing program in the oral health care setting. A more detailed guide to implementing HIV testing programs in oral health care setti...
The infographic outlines the purpose and methodology for integrating HIV care into interprofessional education (IPE) and identifies how the AETC Program is helping to facilitate this training through...
According to a new study published in the Journal Annals of Internal Medicine, one in nine American men is infected with the oral form of the human papillomavirus (HPV). Nationwide, rates of oral HPV infection are 11.5% of men vs. 3.2% women. HPV 16, the most common type of high-risk HPV and known t...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services currently recommends that every person with HIV begin antiretroviral therapy (ART) as soon as possible after diagnosis. Increased availability of testing and treatment along with the above guidelines have reduced the number of new HIV infections by 18...
It is estimated that 1.1 million people in the United States are infected with HIV. Of those, 1 in 7 do not know they are infected.[1] The number of new HIV diagnoses fell 19% from 2005 to 2014.[1] Because HIV testing rates have remained stable or increased in recent years, this decrease in diagnose...
The question I most commonly get asked by oral health providers is...
Do I pre-medicate patients based on a high viral load and low CD4 count?
There is no supporting data to support the need for routine antibiotic coverage pre or post dental treatment based on the CD4 or viral load. Antibiotic use in...
A recent study that was conducted among 1200 HIV patient of whom 600 each belonged to with ART and without ART and the occurrence of oral candidiasis and oral hairy leukoplakia. This study shows that oral candidiasis and leukoplakia was less among patients on ART as well as a decrease in the number...
I often get this question from non-dental personnel including case managers, physician assistants, nurses, and nurse practitioners. The following is a short list of questions you can ask patients to guide dental referrals for emergency care:
HPV oral and oropharyngeal cancers are more difficult to detect than tobacco-related cancers because the symptoms are not always obvious to an individual, and health professionals may lack the education and background to diagnose HPV-related lesions. Although there are many adjunctive oral cancer sc...
Southern states today account for an estimated 44 percent of all people with an HIV diagnosis in the U.S.,[1] despite having only about one-third (37%) of the overall U.S. population. Diagnosis rates for people in the South are higher than for Americans overall. Eight of the 10 states with the highe...
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been very successful at preserving immune function and controlling opportunistic infections among individuals infected with HIV. Oral mucosal diseases associated with advanced immunosuppression, including candidiasis and hairy leukoplakia, are significantly less comm...
The emergence of chronic disease complications in controlled HIV disease has changed the landscape of HIV clinical care. HIV infection confers an increased cardiovascular disease risk which is thought to be due to a complex interplay of mechanistic factors. While traditional cardiovascular risk fact...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated interim infection prevention and control guidance for dental settings during the COVID-19 response on May 19, 2020, very similar to science-based guidance issued earlier in May by the American Dental Association (ADA).
“Oral health is a...
As the global battle to understand and eliminate the coronavirus continues, a new study published in the Journal of Dental Research demonstrates that testing of oropharyngeal secretions (OS) may reduce the number of false-negative results from nasal swab testing of patients who have seemingly recove...
The relationship between oral health and overall health has been well established for many comorbidities including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
We are still learning about COVID-19 and how it affects people living with HIV. Based on limited data, people with HIV who are on effective HIV treat...
Even before COVID-19 inexorably changed social and clinical protocols, dental offices dealt with patients who claimed to “know better” than their providers when it came to health risks. From unvaccinated patients to incomplete health histories, failure to cooperate results in ethical and legal chall...
CHICAGO (Feb. 12, 2021) – The American Dental Association (ADA) has been tracking developments of tongue and mouth issues COVID-19 patients experience since early on in the pandemic. Oral health is an important and vital part of overall health, and the ADA is continuing to examine the connection bet...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many adults faced barriers to receiving oral health care, increasing their risk of infection and the need for emergency hospital visits. And now, as unmet dental needs worsen while the pandemic lingers and people suffer the loss of jobs and dental insurance, provid...
With the current increase in COVID-19 cases in the United States (U.S.), this information will benefit not just dentists but all healthcare providers.
As of December 20, 2020, the following states are permitting dentists to administer the COVID-19 vaccine: Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Oregon...