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Why PROTECT?
Why PROTECT?
Too many young children, particularly those living in poverty, present for dental surgery under anesthesia -- an expensive, potentially dangerous, short-term fix, that often results in recurring oral health disease and subsequent surgeries.
Dr. Helen Lee, an anesthesiologist, and Dr. Joanna Buscemi, a clincial health psychologist, recognized that to decrease need for surgeries, caregivers need resources and support to build their skills and knowledge around managing their child's oral health. After 5 years of relationship-building, publishing, preliminary qualititative work, and building a team with the appropriate skills and knowledge, they developed a grant application to develop and test a parenting intervention for caregivers of preschool-aged children presenting for dental surgery.
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