Marquette’s School of Dentistry and the Medical College of Wisconsin are bridging the gap between medicine and dentistry on the issue of temporomandibular disorder (TMD), which causes pain and dysfunction in the jaw joint and muscles controlling jaw movement.
The benefits of integrating oral health care and overall health care are well documented. Integrated health care refers to merging administrative, technical, operational, and clinical aspects of care across health disciplines to improve care coordination and patient health outcomes. To date,...
Pediatric dental disease is largely preventable but continues to impact too many children and families, particularly in underrepresented, marginalized communities. Pediatricians are essential partners in keeping patients’ teeth...
Welcome to Open Wide: Oral Health Training for Health Professionals and Early Childhood Professionals—Second Edition, a series of four modules designed to help professionals working in programs (e.g., Head Start, home visiting, WIC) promote oral health in the course of promoting...
This teaching strategy focuses on developing oral health competencies to educate parents and children on the importance of oral health and hygiene, fluoride, and having a dental home. It also focuses on recognizing abnormal findings in the mouth.
The SMILES Dental Project - Spanning Miles in Linking Everyone to Services - is creating opportunities for more Coloradans to get the dental care they need by reducing or eliminating barriers to care through integrating dental hygienists into community spaces across the state.
The Colorado Medical-Dental Integration (CO MDI) Project has evolved since the Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation announced its launch in 2015. After three years of providing services, 15 grantees achieved more than 42,000 patient visits.
Compilation of oral health screening forms and accompany guidance for schools and school nurses. Compiled by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
This compendium demonstrates the dynamic and innovative ways that healthcare clinicians, community members, and public health leaders are working together to reunite oral health and primary care through the lens of these Shared Principles. We highlight the many diverse mechanisms and the varying... Read more about Innovations in Oral Health and Primary Care Integration
COVID-19 has amplified the social, economic, and health inequities in the U.S. that were already present prior to the global pandemic. As a result, gaps in our health care system are further widened, and individuals and communities are suffering. Traditionally, training health care providers... Read more about Stepping Out of Our "Lanes" and Reimagining Interprofessional Education
This manual provides a framework for oral health integration that is largely based on the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) standards for integration of care, due to the proven efficacy of these concepts and methodologies. The PCMH model has been shown to decrease the cost of care, reduce... Read more about Oral Health Integration - A manual from the Colorado Community Health Network
This report and its recommendations serve as guiding principles and provide a framework for the design of a competency-based, interprofessional practice model to integrate oral health and primary care