Promising Practices
This page highlights clinical and non-clinical models/programs that have demonstrated effective, integrated practices and/or have generated results that could be generalizable to various settings and populations.
Promising Practice in Clinical Practice
The Integrated Health Home: One-Stop Home for Medical, Mental Health and Dental Care
This collaborative project by Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Mental Health Partners, Clinical Family Health and Dental Aid captures best practices in mental-dental-medical integration efforts with a focus on the importance of including oral health in systems integration... Read more
The Heartbeat of Dentistry: Integrating CV Screening and Wellness Checks in Dental Visits
Statistics show that patients will routinely visit their primary dental provider more frequently than their primary medical provider. Routine wellness exams with a dental hygienist are the perfect opportunity to educate patients on the importance of oral health as it relates to systemic health... Read more
2023
Braun P, Chavez C, Flowerday C, Furniss A, Dickinson M.
Braun P, Chavez C, Flowerday C, Furniss A, Dickinson M.
Promising Practice in Education and Training
2022
Gill S, Quinonez R, Deutchman M, et al.
Integrating Oral Health into Health Professions School Curricula. Med Educ Online. 2022;27(1):2090308. doi:10.1080/10872981.2022.2090308
Gill S, Quinonez R, Deutchman M, et al.
Integrating Oral Health into Health Professions School Curricula. Med Educ Online. 2022;27(1):2090308. doi:10.1080/10872981.2022.2090308
Haber J, Dolce M, Hartnett E, Altman S, Silk H.
Improving Oral Health During Pregnancy: A Call to Action. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2022;67(2):166-169. doi:10.1111/jmwh.13357
Haber J, Dolce M, Hartnett E, Altman S, Silk H.
Improving Oral Health During Pregnancy: A Call to Action. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2022;67(2):166-169. doi:10.1111/jmwh.13357
School of Dentistry, Medical College of Wisconsin bridging gap to address jaw disorder
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...
UConn students offer free medical, dental and vision care to Connecticut community
University of Connecticut students created a medical clinic club and are partnering with registered non-profit Remote Area Medical to put on a pop-up clinic in March 2024 at Windham Middle School to provide free medical, dental and vision care.
Expanding dental care to children through telehealth
More than 57 million people live in dental health professional shortage areas. This means that there are not enough dental providers to care for the community. Telehealth can be used to provide some types of dental care. Children’s Dental Services...
School of Dentistry, Medical College of Wisconsin bridging gap to address jaw disorder
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...
MORE Care in Ohio: Medical Oral Expanded Care
Significant tooth decay in very young children is still a costly and painful problem in Ohio In Ohio, gains have been made in oral health, but significant tooth decay in very young children persists — leading to chronic pain, sleep and eating disorders...
Delta Dental of Arizona, University of Arizona Announce Creation of Oral Health Medical Initiative at the College of Medicine – Phoenix
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix and Delta Dental of Arizona are partnering to create the Oral Health in Medicine Initiative (OHMI). The partnership — made through a $850,000 investment by the Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation —...
How Medical Providers Can Help Improve Oral Health for Head Start Participants
Medical providers, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants, can work in partnership with Head Start programs to improve oral health services for enrolled children and expectant parents.
Networks for Oral Health Integration (NOHI) Within the Maternal and Child Health Safety Net
The Networks for Oral Health Integration (NOHI) Within the Maternal and Child Health Safety Net projects funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau collaborated to develop an environmental scan tool to gain knowledge about factors that could impact...
The Heartbeat of Dentistry: Integrating CV Screening and Wellness Checks in Dental Visits
Statistics show that patients will routinely visit their primary dental provider more frequently than their primary medical provider. Routine wellness exams with a dental hygienist are the perfect opportunity to educate patients on the importance of oral...
Double the Care: How Medical-Dental Integration Is Expanding Access in Ohio
The Goals of the MORE Care Pilot The MORE Care Ohio pilot kicked off in November 2022 as a collaboration between CareQuest Institute and Oral Health Ohio, a coalition of statewide partners who educate and advocate to improve the state’s oral and overall...
Dental Steps for Maine: Oral Health Video Library
This oral health video library contains one video correlating with each well-child visit from 2 months to age 5 as well as a prenatal/introduction to the library. Each video contains one small, digestible piece of oral health information aimed at closing...
New Resource - Promising Practice: Using Teledentistry to Improve Prenatal Care
This publication describes how the University of California, Irvine Family Health Center provides synchronous teledentistry services to pregnant patients.
Networks for Oral Health Integration
To improve access to and utilization of comprehensive, high-quality oral health care for pregnant women, infants, and children at high risk for oral disease, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau funded the...