title: Use of preventive dental care among medicaid-enrolled, school-aged US children in immigrant and nonimmigrant families: trends in Pennsylvania From 2005 through 2010.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We describe trends in receipt of preventive dental care among Medicaid-enrolled children in Pennsylvania between 2005 and 2010, comparing the US children of immigrants with their co-ethnic peers in nonimmigrant families.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed Pennsylvania Medicaid claims, birth records, and census data for children born in Pennsylvania and enrolled in Medicaid for 10 or more months during any of the calendar years assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Receipt of preventive dental care was more likely among Latino children in immigrant families than among their peers in nonimmigrant families; also, it was more likely among White children in immigrant families than among their peers in nonimmigrant families. Rates of preventive dental care use among African American and Asian children in immigrant and nonimmigrant families were comparable. From 2005 to 2010, the percentage of Latino children in nonimmigrant families who received preventive dental care increased from 33% to 61%. Changes in other groups were significant but less dramatic.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Receipt of preventive dental care has increased among Medicaid-enrolled children in Pennsylvania, with marked gains among Latino children. Within each racial/ethnic group, the children of immigrants were either more likely than or equally likely as children in nonimmigrant families to receive care.
authors.affiliation: Katherine Yun, Arina Chesnokova, and David M. Rubin are with the Division of General Pediatrics, PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Justine Shults is with the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Andres Pinto is with the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, OH.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.forename: Arina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chesnokova
authors.forename: Justine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shults
authors.forename: Andres
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Rubin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States