Pediatric Dental Disease Management Outcomes from a Private Practice, 2018-2025

8,857 children's de-identified electronic health records from a private pediatric dental practice between August 2018 and June 2025. The data describes the implementation of a disease management protocol, tracking procedures like silver diamine fluoride and sealants, treatment initiation, and escalation to higher-intensity interventions. The dataset was created by Katelyn Whitlatch and shared on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze treatment escalation patterns based on caries subtype and time between visits mentioned in the description.
• Model the likelihood of a child remaining caries-free based on demographic and visit history data suggested by the cohort analysis.
• Evaluate the real-world adoption rates of disease management procedures like SDF and sealants versus traditional restorative care.
• Study care duration and time-to-event outcomes, such as the median 547 days to higher-intensity treatment escalation.

Strengths

• Contains records for 8,857 children, providing a substantial cohort for analysis.
• Covers a multi-year time range from August 2018 to June 2025, allowing for longitudinal study.
• Includes specific outcome metrics like the 41.9% caries-free rate and median 637-day care duration.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some modeling tasks.
• Data is from a single practice group (Montshire Pediatric Dentistry at one of nine locations), which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

De-identified electronic health record data from Montshire Pediatric Dentistry.

Collection Method

Retrospective descriptive cohort analysis.

Time Range

August 2018 to June 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 05:39:52; freshness should be verified.