Journal of Public Health Dentistry Journal of Public Health Dentistry Contents Index to Volume 62 WINTER 2002 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 1 Prevalence of Cavitated and Noncavitated Lesions Warren, Levy, Kanellis Validation of Self-reported Periodontal Measures Among COMMENTARY Health Professionals 3 The Place of Qualitative Research in Public Health Joshipura, Pitiphat, Douglass Dentistry Validation of Self-reported Oral Health Measures Gibson Pitiphat, Garcia, Douglass, Joshipura SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES 5 Is Depressive Symptomatology Associated with Worse Oral Functioning and Well-being Among Older Adults? SUMMER 2002 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 3 Kressin, Spiro, Atchison, Kazis, Jones Developing Short-form Measures of Oral Health-related EDITORIAL Quality of Life 129 Building the Science Base for Dental Public Health Locker, Allen Tomar Determinants of Dropout in a Community Intervention Trial on the Caries-preventive Effect of Chewing Gums SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES Machiulskiene, Nyvad, Baelum 132 Orofacial Pain: Racial and Sex Differences Among Older A Scoring System for the Early Detection of Oral Adults Submucous Fibrosis Based on a Self-administered Riley, Gilbert, Heft Questionnaire Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Oral Disadvantage, Chiu, Lee, Chiang, Hahn, Kuo, Chen a Measure of Oral Health-related Quality of Life: 24-Month On Adding a Dental Practice Component to an Ongoing Incidence Longitudinal Population-based Study of Oral Health Chavers, Gilbert, Shelton Gilbert, Rose, Cantey, Earls, Eiford, Eldreth, Shelton Sources of Influence on Dental Service Provision: Patient, Comparison of Children’s Medical and Dental Insurance Visit, and Oral Health Factors Coverage by Sociodemographic Characteristics, United Brennan, Spencer States, 1995 The Association Between Viadent® Use and Oral Vargas, Isman, Crall Leukoplakia An ABCD Program to Increase Access to Dental Care for Mascarenhas, Allen, Moeschberger Children Enrolled in Medicaid in a Rural County Comparison of Two Methods of Estimating 48-month Tooth Kaako, Skaret, Getz, Hujoel, Grembowski, Moore, Milgrom Loss Incidence Risk Indicators for Periodontal Disease in a Remote Gilbert, Chavers, Shelton Canadian Community—a Dental Practice-based Study Sbaraglia, Turnbull, Locker BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Dental Caries Experience of Female Inmates 170 Integrity of Powdered and Powder-free Latex Examination Heng, Morse Gloves Calhoun, Rodrick, Brown Archives Fluctuations in Public Water Fluoride Level in Bauru, Brazil Buzalaf, Granjeiro, Damante, Ornelas The Epidemiology of Self-reported TMJ Sounds and Pain in SPRING 2002 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 2 Young Adults in Israel Katz, Heft LETTER TO THE EDITOR AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 67 Vered, Sgan-Cohen 180 The John W. Knutson Distinguished Service Award in Dental Public Health—2001 Recipient Robert E. Mecklenburg SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES Kleinman, Corbin 70 General Health Status and Changes in Chewing Ability in Remarks on Receiving the John W. Knutson Distinguished Older Canadians over Seven Years Service Award Locker, Matear, Lawrence Mecklenburg Translation and Validation of the Chinese Version of GOHAI Wong, Liu, Lo Archives Oral Health and Use of Dental Services among Hispanics Stewart, Ortega, Dausey, Rosenheck Periodontitis in the United States: Beyond Black and White FALL 2002 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 4 Borrell, Burt, Gillespie, Lynch, Neighbors Provision of Care to the Underserved by National Health COMMENTARY Service Corps Alumni Dentists 195 Fluoridation and Social Equity Mofidi, Konrad, Porterfield, Niska, Wells Burt Dental Caries in the Primary Dentition: Assessing Journal of Public Health Dentistry Journal of Public Health Dentistry Contents Index to Volume 62 WINTER 2002 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 1 Prevalence of Cavitated and Noncavitated Lesions Warren, Levy, Kanellis Validation of Self-reported Periodontal Measures Among COMMENTARY Health Professionals 3 The Place of Qualitative Research in Public Health Joshipura, Pitiphat, Douglass Dentistry Validation of Self-reported Oral Health Measures Gibson Pitiphat, Garcia, Douglass, Joshipura SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES 5 Is Depressive Symptomatology Associated with Worse Oral Functioning and Well-being Among Older Adults? SUMMER 2002 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 3 Kressin, Spiro, Atchison, Kazis, Jones Developing Short-form Measures of Oral Health-related EDITORIAL Quality of Life 129 Building the Science Base for Dental Public Health Locker, Allen Tomar Determinants of Dropout in a Community Intervention Trial on the Caries-preventive Effect of Chewing Gums SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES Machiulskiene, Nyvad, Baelum 132 Orofacial Pain: Racial and Sex Differences Among Older A Scoring System for the Early Detection of Oral Adults Submucous Fibrosis Based on a Self-administered Riley, Gilbert, Heft Questionnaire Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Oral Disadvantage, Chiu, Lee, Chiang, Hahn, Kuo, Chen a Measure of Oral Health-related Quality of Life: 24-Month On Adding a Dental Practice Component to an Ongoing Incidence Longitudinal Population-based Study of Oral Health Chavers, Gilbert, Shelton Gilbert, Rose, Cantey, Earls, Eiford, Eldreth, Shelton Sources of Influence on Dental Service Provision: Patient, Comparison of Children’s Medical and Dental Insurance Visit, and Oral Health Factors Coverage by Sociodemographic Characteristics, United Brennan, Spencer States, 1995 The Association Between Viadent® Use and Oral Vargas, Isman, Crall Leukoplakia An ABCD Program to Increase Access to Dental Care for Mascarenhas, Allen, Moeschberger Children Enrolled in Medicaid in a Rural County Comparison of Two Methods of Estimating 48-month Tooth Kaako, Skaret, Getz, Hujoel, Grembowski, Moore, Milgrom Loss Incidence Risk Indicators for Periodontal Disease in a Remote Gilbert, Chavers, Shelton Canadian Community—a Dental Practice-based Study Sbaraglia, Turnbull, Locker BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Dental Caries Experience of Female Inmates 170 Integrity of Powdered and Powder-free Latex Examination Heng, Morse Gloves Calhoun, Rodrick, Brown Archives Fluctuations in Public Water Fluoride Level in Bauru, Brazil Buzalaf, Granjeiro, Damante, Ornelas The Epidemiology of Self-reported TMJ Sounds and Pain in SPRING 2002 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 2 Young Adults in Israel Katz, Heft LETTER TO THE EDITOR AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 67 Vered, Sgan-Cohen 180 The John W. Knutson Distinguished Service Award in Dental Public Health—2001 Recipient Robert E. Mecklenburg SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES Kleinman, Corbin 70 General Health Status and Changes in Chewing Ability in Remarks on Receiving the John W. Knutson Distinguished Older Canadians over Seven Years Service Award Locker, Matear, Lawrence Mecklenburg Translation and Validation of the Chinese Version of GOHAI Wong, Liu, Lo Archives Oral Health and Use of Dental Services among Hispanics Stewart, Ortega, Dausey, Rosenheck Periodontitis in the United States: Beyond Black and White FALL 2002 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 4 Borrell, Burt, Gillespie, Lynch, Neighbors Provision of Care to the Underserved by National Health COMMENTARY Service Corps Alumni Dentists 195 Fluoridation and Social Equity Mofidi, Konrad, Porterfield, Niska, Wells Burt Dental Caries in the Primary Dentition: Assessing Vol. 62, No. 4, Fall 2002 253 SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES 2002 Special Merit Award for Outstanding Achievement 201 A Systematic Review of the Performance of Methods for in Community Dentistry—International: Patricia Main— Identifying Carious Lesions King Bader, Shugars, Bonito Remarks on Receiving the 2002 Special Merit Award for Predictors of Chewing Difficulty Onset Among Dentate Outstanding Achievement in Community Dentistry— Adults: 24-month Incidence International—Main Peek, Gilbert, Duncan 231 2002 JPHD Best Paper Award 232 2002 Student Merit Awards 2002 AAPHD ANNUAL SESSION 235 Town Hall Annual Business Meeting Minutes 222 Highlights—Maas 237 Abstracts 224 President's Welcome and Address—McFarland 2002 Distinguished Service Award: Myron Allukian, Jr.— AMERICAN BOARD OF DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH King 249 Minutes of the 52nd Annual Meeting of Diplomates Remarks on Receiving the 2002 Distinguished Service 250 Press Release Award—Allukian 2002 Public Service Award: Sen. Jeff Bingaman—King 251 Archives 2002 Special Merit Award: Robert J. Weyant—King 252 Index to Volume 62 Remarks on Receiving the 2002 Special Merit Award— 254 Instructions for Contributors Weyant PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DENTAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO Board-certified or board-eligible public health den- DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH RESIDENCY tists are invited to inquire about this advanced level position with the Palm Beach County Health De- The Department of Community Dentistry invites partment. The Dental Executive Director supervises applications for a one-year full-time or a two-year approximately 40 personnel in a five-clinic, 30-chair part-time residency in dental public health. This clinical program that targets Medicaid children as accredited program allows dentists with the MPH well as adult members of the County Health Care or its equivalent to complete the educational re- Taxing District entitlement program. Our Public quirements for board certification as a specialist in Health Dentistry Division administers a commu- dental public health. The residency prepares for nity-based fluoridation initiative, and school-based careers in academic, federal, state, and local health fluoride mouthrinse (40,000 children) and sealant departments, community health centers, industry, (2,000 children) programs. We have a highly quali- and the military. The department has programs in fied and loyal staff with long tenure and low turn- epidemiology, oral disease prevention and health over. The successful candidate will participate in promotion, nutrition, cariology, sialochemistry, public health medical and dental residency training health services research and development, and co- programs. Excellent relationships with the private operates in several school and community health dental sector and school board offer opportunities center clinical programs. Other resources to the pro- for innovative linkages. Florida dental license is pre- gram include the Texas Department of Health, the ferred, but not mandatory. The Dental Executive San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, and the Director is expected to be active in local dental asso- University of Texas of School of Public Health, San ciation activities and to participate in community Antonio Program. Financial support during the resi- coalitions relative to oral health initiatives. Our $2.7 dency in dental public health, available to US citi- million budget is generated through the clinical pro- zens/permanent residents, may include a stipend gram as well as grants and contracts. Position will with benefits. Further information: Dr. John P. become available May 1, 2003, and will provide a Brown, Chair, Department of Community Den- two-month overlap with the incumbent director. tistry, MC 7917, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Send a letter of interest and current curriculum vitae Antonio, TX 78229-3900. Tel. (210) 576-3200; Fax to Robert H. Dumbaugh, DDS, MPH, Dental Execu- (210) 567-4587. E-mail: [email protected]. tive Director, Palm Beach County Health Depart- Web site: http://www.dental.uthscsa.edu/ ment, PO Box 29, West Palm Beach,FL 33402; or call educprog/advdphr.html. Equal Employment Op- (561) 355-3082 for more information. portunity /A ffirmative Action employer.