Primary care, oral health must undo ‘years of separation’

Healio April 8, 2021
Janel Miller

Patients and clinicians can benefit by closing the gap between primary care and oral health care, speakers at an online event said.

The event, hosted by the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC), focused a recent report titled “Innovations in Oral Health and Primary Care Integration: Alignment with the Shared Principles of Primary Care,” which included data on the cost of unmet oral health needs to patients, taxpayers, the government and society, and it offered strategies on how to integrate oral health with primary care.

“Just as there is no health without oral health, there is no health justice without the inclusion of oral health,” Lisa Simon, MD, DMD, a fellow in oral health and medicine integration at the Harvard School of...

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