Integrating Oral and Systemic Health: Innovations in Transdisciplinary Science, Health Care and Policy

The newly launched (June 1, 2020) Frontiers in Dental Medicine (FDMED) has a bold mission and vision focused on ensuring that dental, oral, and craniofacial health and diseases are understood in the context of the whole body. FDMED advocates a transdisciplinary, systems-based approach to solving basic, clinical, and translational challenges in order to improve oral and overall health outcomes for all communities. FDMED will accomplish this by attracting rigorous, innovative investigations, and commentaries from researchers where dental-oral health is an integral part of investigations into underlying health mechanisms to include biological, behavioral and social factors, clinical approaches, tools and technologies and health care delivery models/policies. We envision that the information disseminated in Frontiers in Dental Medicine and Frontiers in Oral Health will stimulate further work and ultimately contribute to the development of evidence-based, cost-effective disease prevention and health care strategies applicable across diverse populations.