Skip to main content

Advancing Oral Health Across the Lifespan: A Workshop

Recently completed

Oral health is essential to general health and well-being, but there is an epidemic of oral diseases affecting vulnerable populations—poor children, older people, and many members of racial and ethnic minority groups. With support from a coalition of sponsors, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will build on these reports by convening a broad group of stakeholders in a public workshop to discuss opportunities to sustainably implement innovative models, practices, and strategies to reduce disparities and improve oral health in the US.

Description

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and conduct a public workshop that brings together experts and key stakeholders to explore innovative practices and models for advancing oral health in the US across the lifespan.
Topics discussed at the workshop may include consideration of:

  • National oral health goals for “Zero at Six” (zero cavities at six years of age for all children), and “Twenty at Eighty” (all 80 year olds to have 20 teeth).
  • Sustainable solutions that improve access to oral health services in public and private spaces (urban, suburban, rural, and Tribal communities and territories)
  • Models that achieve meaningful oral and systemic health integration.
  • Models to empower all consumers to make informed choices related to oral health and models that encourage healthy workplace and school policies
  • Investments in public oral health education campaigns, including celebrity and social media influencer voices
  • Innovations that will improve oral health in the next 5-10 years.

A proceedings in brief of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Contributors

Committee

Chair

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Sponsors

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

American College of Dentists

American Dental Association

ARCORA

CareQuest Institute

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Colgate

Delta Dental Foundation

Gary and Mary West Foundation

Henry Schein, Inc.

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

Santa Fe Group

The Henry Schein Cares Foundation

United Concordia Dental

Staff

Sharyl Nass

Lead

Tracy Lustig

Lead

Austen Applegate

Chidinma J. Chukwurah

Subscribe to Email from the National Academies
Keep up with all of the activities, publications, and events by subscribing to free updates by email.