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Inquiry into adult dental services to identify priorities for Commonwealth funding
Point 1: Commonwealth funding towards improving access to dental care should include a requirement that where feasible, the water supplies are fluoridated.
Point 2: Excluding the mouth from health planning, including in health promotion, should cease and that further research into the oral health/general health links should be encouraged.
Point 3: Further research needs to be undertaken as a matter of urgency to find in-surgery preventive methods.
Point 4: A multidisciplinary team approach is needed to improve dental care to people with special needs, involving a range of primary health care providers.
Point 5: A rigorous evaluation policy using pre- and post-intervention baseline measures should be employed of the dental practitioner rural retention incentives.
Point 6: An analysis of what would be the best dental workforce for Australia, both in the number, and mix, of dental practitioners should be undertaken.
Point 7: A speciality in rural dentistry with extra training should be established.
Point 8: When the oral health therapist graduate year program commences, the use of dentist/oral health therapist teams in rural areas should be encouraged.
Point 9: Existing rural private dental practices to supply care to health care
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Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and AgeingPagination
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