Inter-professional

Medical-Dental Integration (MDI) is a model of care that emphasizes the connection between one’s oral health and systemic health. It is an approach to care that integrates dental medicine into primary care and behavioral health and encourages providers to...

Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease for children and adults alike. Poor oral health has been linked to tooth loss, oral infections and an increased risk of systemic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Dental problems can also...

A collaboration between Penn Medicine and Penn’s School of Dental Medicine, pioneered by oncology nurses Margaret ‘Peg’ Rummel and Jen Jacobs, helps cancer patients get the dental care they need in order to be cleared to start radiation.

The council formed in 2019 thanks to funding from Delta Dental of Wisconsin and the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin endowment at MCW to support the Wisconsin MDI program, a model that works to incorporate dental hygienists into pediatric and prenatal...

Provides recommendations, guiding principles, and a framework for the design of a competency-based, interprofessional practice model to integrate oral health and primary care.

Minimally-Invasive Care (MIC) is effective oral health care that’s less complex than what most people are used to. When people think of dental care, they most often imagine “traditional” dental procedures like drilling and filling cavities, root canals...

Proceedings produced by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

A driver diagram shows the processes or systems that affect the aim of your quality improvement (QI) project and determines what you need to do or manage to improve outcomes. States that choose to implement improvement activities related to oral health...

This course will introduce you to value-based care (VBC) in oral health. We will examine the five key areas of oral health value-based care and explore the limitations of the current health care system in the United States. In this course, you will learn...

At Smilecon 2025, a panel discussion took on the challenging topic of connecting the care provided in dental practices with the care provided by medical doctors.