Donald Chi
- Health Care Delivery
- Health Care Reform
- Children & Families
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About Donald
Chi is a board-certified pediatric dentist. His research focuses on children's oral health inequalities, and ranges from the basic behavioral and social science work to understand the causes of oral health inequality to the applied intervention and policy work that will help solve it. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry.
Contributions
Why Inadequate Dental Care Leads to Escalating Health Problems for Low-Income Americans
Publications
Demonstrates that children with autism spectrum disorders did not benefit from a special dental program for children in Medicaid. Underscores the importance of tailored policies and programs focusing on the highest need children.
Demonstrates that Alaska Native children consume 16 times the maximum recommended added sugar using a hair-based biomarker to measure added sugar intake. Children who consume more added sugar have more severe tooth decay.
Demonstrates value of dental sealants on primary teeth for low-income children in Medicaid and emphasized the importance of risk-based provision of preventive care and alternative reimbursement models in preventive dentistry.
Estimates the prevalence of parents who refuse topical fluoride and found that vaccine refusal is significantly related to topical fluoride refusal.
Demonstrates the value of dental sealants on primary teeth for low-income children in Medicaid and emphasized the importance of risk-based provision of preventive care and alternative reimbursement models in preventive dentistry.