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Four Common Questions (and Answers) about Value-Based Care
One thing is clear about the dental industry’s transition to value-based care: There are a lot of questions: What is value-based care? Are...
Voices from the Field: Alex Sheff on Advocating Oral Health Care for All
Alex Sheff is co-director of policy and government relations at Health Care For All (HCFA), a consumer health advocacy organization that supports...
An Introduction to Value-Based Care — in Five Minutes
The future of oral health is coming — and value-based care holds many of the keys to success. For more than two centuries, dentists (and much of...
Actions Anyone Can Take to Start Addressing Structural Racism in Health Care
Racism. Antiracism. Health care. At first blush, it may not seem like those three terms fit together, but, more and more, we are starting to...
‘How Do You Not Include Dental Care in Overall Health?’
Nathan Fletcher, DDS, is the dental director at AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia, a Medicaid insurance company. He is chairman of the...
Voices from the Field: Derek M. Griffith on the Connection Between Structural Racism and Health Outcomes
Derek M. Griffith is a founding co-director of the Racial Justice Institute, founder and director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, and...
Four Reasons More Providers Should Consider Using SDF
Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) — a liquid medication used to treat and prevent caries — has proven to be an especially valuable tool during the...
Medical-Dental Integration Just Got a Boost
As part of the Dental Data Exchange Project, CareQuest Institute for Oral Health helped develop the first implementation guides to help bridge...
Answers to 17 of Your Silver Diamine Fluoride Questions
Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) has been widely recognized as an effective noninvasive tool for the prevention and management of dental caries. And...
Why Teledentistry Will Help Shape the Future of Oral Health
Dental care in the United States has been changing, gradually, in the last decade. New treatments, new payment models, and new technologies have...
What’s Next for Oral Health in Medicare? A Former Congressman Explains.
Congress is working on significant legislation — including adding dental coverage to Medicare — that could improve the lives of millions of...
Voices from the Field: Dr. Eleanor Fleming on Tackling Inequity and the Future of Oral Health
Eleanor Fleming, PhD, DDS, MPH, is an associate professor in the department of Dental Public Health at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN....