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Wanting better: a qualitative study of low-income parents about their children's oral healthCharlotte W Lewis
School of Medicine, University of Washington Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, University of Washington Child Health Institute, Seattle, USA
Pediatr Dent 32:518-24. 2010..Using qualitative methods, the purpose of this study was to understand low-income parents' experiences and how these influenced their oral health-related behavior toward their children...- The role of the pediatrician in the oral health of children: A national surveyC W Lewis
Child Health Institute University of Washington, University of Washington, USA
Pediatrics 106:E84. 2000..To assess pediatricians' knowledge, attitudes, and professional experience regarding oral health, and to determine willingness to incorporate fluoride varnish into their practices... - Preventive dental care for children in the United States: a national perspectiveCharlotte W Lewis
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatrics 119:e544-53. 2007.... - Community orthodontists and craniofacial care: results of a Washington state surveyCharlotte W Lewis
Craniofacial Center, Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Cleft Palate Craniofac J 42:521-5. 2005..Little is known about community orthodontists' previous training in, experience with, or receptivity to caring for children with craniofacial disorders... - Unmet dental care needs among children with special health care needs: implications for the medical homeCharlotte Lewis
Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Pediatrics 116:e426-31. 2005..Little is known about the characteristics of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) who have unmet dental care needs... - Fluoride varnish use in primary care: what do providers think?Charlotte Lewis
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Pediatrics 115:e69-76. 2005..The objective of this study was to perform an in-depth case study of fluoride varnish diffusion in 12 pediatric, family medicine, and nurse practitioner offices that underwent fluoride varnish training... - Oral health in the pediatric practice setting: a survey of Washington State pediatriciansCharlotte W Lewis
Division of General Pediatrics, Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Box 354920, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Public Health Dent 64:111-4. 2004..Pediatric health care providers may be the only source of preventive oral health education for families of young children who lack access to professional dental care... 
Preventive dental care for young, Medicaid-insured children in Washington stateCharlotte Lewis
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Institute, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Pediatrics 124:e120-7. 2009..The Access to the Baby and Childhood Dentistry (ABCD) program of Washington State is targeted to Medicaid-insured children <6 years of age to improve their access to PDC...
Dental care and children with special health care needs: a population-based perspectiveCharlotte W Lewis
Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Acad Pediatr 9:420-6. 2009..Despite advances in knowledge about dental care among CSHCN, unanswered questions remain. Recommendations are provided toward obtaining additional data and facilitating dental care access for this vulnerable population...- Toothache in US childrenCharlotte Lewis
Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and the Child Health Institute, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:1059-63. 2010..To describe the prevalence of and risk factors for recent toothache among US children and to estimate frequency of contact between children with toothache and their pediatric primary care providers (PPCP)... - Oral health of young Alaska Native children and their caregivers in Southwestern AlaskaCharlotte W Lewis
Child Health Institute, Division of General Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 4920, USA
Alaska Med 44:83-7. 2002..We sought to determine the prevalence of caries and associated risk factors in young Native children and their caregivers in two communities in rural Alaska... - Tracheotomy in pediatric patients: a national perspectiveCharlotte W Lewis
Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 4920, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 129:523-9. 2003..Given the complexity of health care that these patients subsequently require, monitoring the performance of this procedure and patient outcomes across the diverse US health care system is warranted... - Oral health and pediatricians: results of a national surveyCharlotte W Lewis
Division of General Pediatrics, University of Washington and Craniofacial Center, Seattle Children s Hospital, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Acad Pediatr 9:457-61. 2009..We sought to assess pediatricians' current attitudes and practices related to oral health of children 0-3 years old... - Dental insurance and its impact on preventive dental care visits for U.S. childrenCharlotte Lewis
Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and Child Health Institute, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Am Dent Assoc 138:369-80. 2007..The authors sought to describe the proportion and characteristics of U.S. children with dental insurance and to assess the relationship between dental insurance and preventive dental care (PDC)... - Pediatric primary care providers and adolescent depression: a qualitative study of barriers to treatment and the effect of the black box warningLaura P Richardson
Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Institute, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA
J Adolesc Health 40:433-9. 2007.... - A comparison of nasendoscopy and multiview videofluoroscopy in assessing velopharyngeal insufficiencyDerek J Lam
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, Box 356515, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 134:394-402. 2006..1) To compare nasendoscopy (NE) and multiview fluoroscopy (MVF) in assessing velopharyngeal gap size; and 2) to determine the relationship between these assessments and velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) severity... - Bupivacaine administration and postoperative pain following anterior iliac crest bone graft for alveolar cleft repairJason E Dashow
University of Washington School of Dentistry, Seattle, Washington, USA
Cleft Palate Craniofac J 46:173-8. 2009..The comparison group received only bupivacaine infiltration (NO BAS) at the AIC... - Availability of dental appointments for young children in King County, Washington: implications for access to careRichard G Smith
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatr Dent 27:207-11. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Adhering to recommendations for early initiation of dental care is difficult, given the limited availability of dental appointments for young and Medicaid-insured children... - Emergency department analgesia for fracture painJulie C Brown
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, School of Medicine and the Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:197-205. 2003..Among children, we compare treatment between pediatric and nonpediatric facilities... - Furlow palatoplasty for management of velopharyngeal insufficiency: a prospective study of 148 consecutive patientsJonathan A Perkins
Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 116:72-80; discussion 81-4. 2005..Small gap size is associated with a greater likelihood of resolution... - Recent epidemiology of pediatric cochlear implantation in the United States: disparity among children of different ethnicity and socioeconomic statusRyan E Stern
University of Washington School of Medicine, the Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Laryngoscope 115:125-31. 2005.... - Dental care needs, use and expenditures among U.S. children with and without special health care needsHiroko Iida
Department of Epidemiology, Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 492, USA
J Am Dent Assoc 141:79-88. 2010..Controversy exists in the literature about whether dental care needs, use and expenditures differ between children with and without special health care needs (SHCN)... - Dental complaints in emergency departments: a national perspectiveCharlotte Lewis
Child Health Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, 6200 NE 74th Street, Building 29, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:93-9. 2003..We hypothesized that dental-related ED visits were more likely than other ED visits to have Medicaid or no insurance as the payer... - Visiting the emergency department for dental problems: trends in utilization, 2001 to 2008Helen H Lee
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Public Health 102:e77-83. 2012..We tested the hypothesis that between 2001 and 2008, Americans increasingly relied upon emergency departments (EDs) for dental care... - FluorideCharlotte W Lewis
Child Health Institute and Division of General Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Pediatr Rev 24:327-36. 2003 - Stretching the safety net too far waiting times for dental treatmentCharlotte W Lewis
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, and Craniofacial Center, Children's Hospital, Seattle, USA
Pediatr Dent 24:6-10. 2002..Average waiting times for complex dental care for children in pain is 28 days with GA; without pain and need for GA 71 days; 4. There was an average 36-day wait for treatment with sedation... - A new oral health elective for medical students at the University of WashingtonWendy E Mouradian
Pediatric Dentistry Dental Public Health Sciences, Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Teach Learn Med 18:336-42. 2006..Oral health is an important but inadequately addressed area in medical school curricula. Primary care practitioners are in an ideal position to help prevent oral disease but lack the knowledge to do so... - Question from the clinician: fluoridated waterSima Bakalian
Kaiser Permanente
Pediatr Rev 24:70. 2003
Research Grants
- Primary Care Provider and Preventive Oral HealthCharlotte Lewis; Fiscal Year: 2005..In addition, this career development award is expected to provide to Dr. Lewis the didactic and experiential training necessary to become an independent clinical investigator focusing on pediatric and dental health services research. ..
- Oral Health Status and Habits of Young Children with Developmental DelayCharlotte Lewis; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- A pilot study for oral health case management of children with orofacial cleftsCharlotte Lewis; Fiscal Year: 2007..As a secondary aim, we intend to identify dietary and oral hygiene habits, dental experience and parental oral health attitudes that would be amenable to intervention as part of our future case management model. ..
- Dental Care in Children With and Without Special Health Care NeedsCharlotte Lewis; Fiscal Year: 2007..In addition, we hypothesize that CSHCN will require relatively more restorative dental care and thus have higher dental expenditures per dental visit and overall than children without special needs. ..