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  • Title: Historical perspective on U.S. military dental classification.
    Author: King JE.
    Journal: Mil Med; 2008 Jan; 173(1 Suppl):3-10. PubMed ID: 18277713.
    Abstract:
    The objective of this article is to describe from a historical perspective the use of dental epidemiology and surveillance in the three U.S. military Dental Corps. The time described starts in 1882 and includes very recent events. The year 1981 was a milestone because it marks the author's personal involvement in this area of research, and because at that time the three U.S. Dental Corps were being pressured from the highest level to make dental care more militarily relevant. I provide (1) a basic description of the rationale for the classification-driven system and (2) additional comments on dental epidemiology methods from a historical perspective. I observed that the intent in 1981 was to provide a population-based index for Congress and Department of Defense, but today there appears to be more interest in the accuracy of predicting risk for dental emergencies in individual service members. The current dental classification may not be capable of doing both.
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