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Medical-Dental-Behavioral Integration: Embracing Whole-Person Health in Research and Practice

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This editorial describes the 9 articles in this supplement that emphasize and support establishing and maintaining integrated health care systems that address all aspects of a person’s health, given the complex links between oral, behavioral, and systemic...

Integrating Oral Health Care into Primary Care: Five Successful, Long-Standing, Statewide Programs Providing Care for the Maternal and Child Health Population

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Produced by the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC).

National Profile of State Medicaid and CHIP Oral Health Programs: Policy Report

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2024 Profile produced by the Medicaid Medicare CHIP Services Dental Association

2024 Oral Health Surveillance Report

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This report estimates the prevalence and severity of dental caries in different age groups and tooth retention in adults. These estimates are stratified by sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, race and ethnicity, poverty status, education...

Making the Connection Between Dental and Medical Care

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NACDD’s oral health program promotes integrating medical and dental care to achieve whole-person health. Recognizing the vital link between oral health and overall health, we collaborate with diverse partners to ensure that oral health is integral to...

A new path to dental care for cancer patients

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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.

Important State Collaborations Around Oral Health and Chronic Disease

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Oral health programs have collaborated on tobacco related issues for decades because of oral cancer and other health issues; they continue to do so around e-cigarettes, especially their use by adolescents. Despite a commitment to oral cancer prevention...

Expanding dental care to children through telehealth

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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...

2024 Connecticut Medical/Dental Integration Report

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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...

Exemplary Statewide Programs Integrating Oral Health Care into Primary Care for the Maternal and Child Health Population

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To inform discussions about integrating oral health care in safety net settings serving the maternal and child health (MCH) population, the Consortium for Oral Health Systems Integration and Improvement (COHSII) convened an MCH Oral Health Think Tank...