Scott L Tomar

Biographic Data

ID6066542
NAMEScott L Tomar
GIVEN NAMESScott L
FAMILY NAMETomar
SIGNATURETOMAR S L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Florida
ORCID0000-0002-3108-1945
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR32
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Dental care access for children in the United States

    Open AccessNicoleta Serban, Simin Ma et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2024

    This study found that dental care access was lower for children with public insurance than those with private access across all states, although states responded differently to changes in Medicaid/CHIP participation. Increasing access for children with public insurance would reduce disparities, but overall children's access to dental care would be better improved by expanding the oral health workforce

  • American Board of Dental Public Health diplomate survey, 2021

    Open AccessMark D Macek, Athanasios I Zavras et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2022

    Current diplomates are concentrated in academia. If this trend continues, it may be necessary to restructure the competencies, so training and skills acquisition remain timely and relevant. The specialty may also need to encourage future generations to consider non-academic positions so Dental Public Health remains an impactful component of the public health care system

  • The impact of dentists' availability in delivering dental care in Florida Elementary Schools

    Open AccessSimin Ma, Nicoleta Serban et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2022

    School-based programs improve dental care access; the improvement was however different by insurance status, with uninsured children benefiting the most. Accounting to the dentists' availability in prioritizing schools resulted in effective resource allocation to school-based programs. Access disparities between public and private-insured children did not improve; school-based programs shifted resources from public-insured to uninsured. School-ba…

  • The 2021 report on oral health in America

    Open AccessCarlos Quiñonez, Judith A Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2022

    In the two decades between Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General and Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges much good happened but intractable challenges persist. Inequity in oral health status, utilization, and access to care continue to negatively affect the health and economic wellbeing of Americans and their families, local, state, and federal health care systems, and American society overall. To move the nation for…

  • The health care utilization model

    Open AccessJihee Song, Scott L Tomar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2020

    Children may receive dental services that eliminate acute dental problems, probably as a result of the ACA and CHIP coverage. The patterns of findings suggest the need for policy changes to improve pediatric dental coverage and promote professional recommendations for effective dental hygiene

  • Self‐reported factors associated with dental care utilization among Hispanic migrant farmworkers in South Florida

    Open AccessClaudia A Serna, Jesús Sanchez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2020

    Objectives To explore patterns of dental care utilization among adult Hispanic migrant farmworkers utilizing the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services. Methods In 2010, 278 Hispanic migrant workers participated in the oral health assessment. Hierarchical logistic regression modeling was used to assess the effects of multiple factors on having a past‐year dental visit. Predisposing variables included age, education, and knowledge toward pre…

  • Projecting the economic impact of silver diamine fluoride on caries treatment expenditures and outcomes in young U.S. children

    Open AccessBen Johhnson, Nicoleta Serban et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2019

    Providing SDF as a caries management strategy can reduce Medicaid program dental care expenditures by averting expensive caries treatment options. It could also prevent stressful restorative procedures. State Medicaid programs should consider reimbursing for SDF to arrest the progression of dental caries in young children

  • Interdisciplinary Community-Based Oral Health Program for Women and Children at WIC

    Open AccessJaana Gold, Scott L TomarARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2018

  • ADA Health Policy Institute's methodology overestimates spatial access to dental care for publicly insured children

    Open AccessNicoleta Serban, Scott L TomarARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2018

    The estimates provided by HPI substantially overestimate access for children with public insurance. The overestimation comes from both the data limitations and the shortcomings of the methodology employed

  • Measuring quality

    Open AccessJill Boylston Herndon, James J Crall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2017

    These National Quality Forum endorsed measures provide valid methodologies for assessing the rate of caries-related ED visits, an important system-level outcome indicator of outpatient prevention and disease management, and the timeliness of follow-up with a dentist. There is significant variation in caries-related ED visits among state Medicaid programs, and most ED visits do not have follow-up with a dentist within 30 days

  • Dental-Related Use of Hospital Emergency Departments by Hispanics and Non-Hispanics in Florida

    Claudia A Serna, Oscar Arevalo et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2017References: 20

    Objectives. To examine differences between Hispanics and non-Hispanics in Florida in the dental-related use of hospital emergency departments (EDs). Methods. We used ambulatory ED discharge records from 2013 to 2015 to compute rates of ED visits for dental complaints per 10 000 population, by region, age, gender, and the percentage distribution visits by primary payer, day of the week, and hour of arrival. Results. There were 64 100 ED visits for…

  • Trends in dental‐related use of hospital emergency departments in Florida

    Open AccessScott L Tomar, Donna L Carden et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2016

    Dental-related visits to hospital EDs in Florida have increased substantially during the past decade, as have their associated charges. Most patients did not receive definitive oral health care in EDs, and this trend represents an increasingly inefficient use of health care system resources

  • Developing and testing pediatric oral healthcare quality measures

    Open AccessJill Boylston Herndon, James J Crall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2015

    Broad stakeholder engagement, rigorous measure development and testing processes, and regular opportunities for public input contributed to the development and validation of the first set of fully specified and tested pediatric oral healthcare quality measures, which have high feasibility for implementation in both public and private sectors. This achievement marks an important essential step toward improving oral healthcare and oral health outco…

  • Effects of a Brief Case Management Intervention Linking People With HIV to Oral Health Care

    Lisa R Metsch, Margaret Pereyra et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015References: 40

    Objectives. Although people with HIV experience significant oral health problems, many consistently identify oral health as an unmet health care need. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a dental case management intervention on dental care use. Methods. We evaluated the intervention according to self-reported dental care use at 6-, 12-, and 18-month follow-ups. Multivariable logistic models with generalized estima…

  • Evidence of emerging hookah use among university students

    Open AccessTracey E Barnett, Thalia Smith et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    As hookah surpasses cigarette use, efforts need to be made to slow the increase in new tobacco products that are attractive to young adults and that pose many of the same health risks as those related to traditional tobacco products. Prevalence of all emerging tobacco products, including hookah, and the relationship with cigarette use needs to be monitored on an ongoing basis

  • Utilization of dental care services among low-income HIV-positive persons receiving primary care in South Florida

    Margaret Pereyra, Lisa R Metsch et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2011

    We investigated the use of dental care services among a population of low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS who had not seen a dental care provider during the 12 months prior to study enrollment. A total of 593 participants were recruited from five HIV primary care clinics in two South Florida counties and interviewed regarding past utilization of dental care services, HIV primary care service utilization, and barriers to care. Multivariate log…

  • Oral health-related quality of life among low-income adults living with HIV

    Open AccessScott L Tomar, Margaret Pereyra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2011

    Oral health impacts are prevalent among adults in South Florida living with HIV, particularly among women, cigarette smokers, those in prison or other institutional settings, and certain racial and ethnic groups

  • Attributes of an ideal oral health care system

    Open AccessScott L Tomar, Lois K CohenARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2010

    Although there are some attributes of an ideal oral health care system on which the United States has made initial strides, it falls far short in many areas. The development of an oral health care delivery system that meets the characteristics described above is possible but would require tremendous commitment and political will on the part of the American public and its elected officials to bring it to fruition

  • Patterns of dual use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco among US males

    Open AccessScott L Tomar, HILLEL R ALPERT et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2009

    Although dual daily use of ST and cigarettes is relatively uncommon in the USA, concurrent ST use is more common among adolescent and young adult male smokers than among more mature tobacco users. Among adult males, daily smoking predominates and non-daily ST use is very strongly associated with current smoking. Adult male smokers who also use ST daily tend to have relatively high levels of serum cotinine and high prevalence of a major indicator …

  • Influences of adult-onset diabetes on orofacial pain and related health behaviors

    Open AccessBridgett Rahim-Williams, Scott Tomar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2009

    Although diabetes is well known to be associated with neuropathic pain, these results indicate that the experience of nociceptive pain is exacerbated by diabetes. Findings have significance for the subjective experience of oral pain, dental-care outcomes, and health-related quality of life associated with oral-health outcomes among individuals with diabetes

  • Dental Care Visits among Dentate Adults with Diabetes and Periodontitis

    Open AccessMark D Macek, Scott L TomarARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2009

    These data revealed that dental care visits for dentate adults with diabetes were unrelated to their periodontal health, suggesting that fear of periodontal therapy did not influence visit patterns. These data also showed that dental care visit disparities existed for all adults with diabetes, not just women. Future research should investigate whether factors that are indirectly related to diabetes status, such as competing costs, attitudes, and …

  • The influence of active coping and perceived stress on health disparities in a multi-ethnic low income sample

    Open AccessJennifer M Watson, Henrietta L Logan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2008

    Our results indicate that perceived stress is a critical component in understanding health outcomes for all ethnoracial groups. While SES related significantly to general health for Whites and Hispanics, this relationship was mediated by perceived stress. Active coping was associated only with oral health

  • Dental Care Visits among Dentate Adults with Diabetes, United States, 2003

    Open AccessMark D Macek, George W Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2008

    Having diabetes is associated with a variety of adverse health outcomes, including periodontitis. Adults with diabetes would benefit from regular health care visits to address these concerns, but this report shows that women with diabetes are underutilizing dental care services. The underutilization may be a result of the barriers to dental care that disproportionately affect women. Additional research should test the plausibility of these explan…

  • An Assessment of the Dental Public Health Infrastructure in the United States

    Open AccessScott L TomarARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2006

    Findings suggest the U.S. dental public health workforce is small, most state programs have scant funding, the field has minimal presence in academia, and dental public health has little role in the regulation of dentistry and dental hygiene. Successful efforts to enhance the many aspects of the U.S. dental public health infrastructure will require substantial collaboration among many diverse partners

  • Trends in Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Adults and Adolescents in the United States

    David E Nelson, Paul Mowery et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2006Cited by: 1References: 35

    Objectives. Smokeless tobacco has many adverse health effects. We analyzed long-term national trends in smokeless tobacco use. Methods. We used 1987 to 2000 National Health Interview Survey data for adults aged 18 years and older, 1986 to 2003 data from Monitoring the Future surveys of adolescents, and 1991 to 2003 data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey for 9th- to 12th-grade students to examine overall and demographic-specific trends. Results.…