title: The Texas Head Star Dental Home Initiative. Making a difference in the smiles of Head Start children.
abstract: The TDA is passionately committed to partnering every Head Start center in Texas with a dentist dedicated to being the "dental home" for that center. As the dental home, the treating dentist establishes an ongoing relationship with the child and his or her family including providing comprehensive, continuously accessible oral health care. Federal Head Start regulations mandate that each child enrolled in Head Start has an ongoing source of continuous accessible health care (1). As it pertains to dentistry, this means a dental home.
authors: Herbert L
authors: HL
authors: Wade
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003190:Comprehensive Dental Care; D019140:Dental Care for Children; D018479:Early Intervention, Educational; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States