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Our success in working with FDCS dentists in private practice ultimately led to the Dental Practice-Based Research Network.

Other links relevant to the FDCS

Articles from the FDCS were published in each of these 30 journals:

Caries Research

Community Dental Health
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Ethnicity and Health
Health Services Research

International Dental Journal

Journal of Aging and Health

Journal of the American Dental Association

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Journal of Applied Gerontology
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Journal of Clinical Periodontology (requires that browser be set to allow cookies)

Journal of Dental Education
Journal of Dental Research
Journal of Endodontics

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
Journal of Pain
Journal of Periodontology
Journal of Public Health Dentistry (click on the "Publications" link on the AAPHD page)
Medical Care
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endodon
Pain
Public Health Reports
Quality of Life Research (requires that browser be set to allow cookies)
Statistics in Medicine
Social Science and Medicine
Special Care in Dentistry

(several of the above links have changed rather frequently -- if our link does not work, just use your browser's "Search" function to find the journal's web page)

The FDCS received grant support from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.

We used data from the 1990 U.S. Census Bureau to compare characteristics of persons in the four counties of interest to those who participated in the FDCS. This had to be arranged with the Bureau directly, because we needed ZIP-code specific information. Consequently, we purchased data from the Bureau which they generated specifically for this project. The Bureau was willing to do this because we were a contractor for NIDCR at the time.

We used data from the 1989 U.S. National Health Interview Survey from the National Center for Health Statistics to compare dental care use nationally with dental care use of persons in the FDCS. These data are available to the public by purchasing them on a CD-ROM. However, to analyze them adequately, one needs SUDAAN statistical software to account for the complex sampling design.