Contents

• Introductory Message
• Acknowledgements
• [Collaborators]
• Errata Notice
  Published online: October 2022.
• Introduction
  • A Look Back on Oral Health
  • Need for a New Report
  • Development of the Report
  • Organization and Content of the Report
  • References
• Section 1. Effect of Oral Health on the Community, Overall Well-Being, and the Economy
  • Chapter 1: Status of Knowledge, Practice, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 2. Advances and Challenges
  • Chapter 3. Promising New Directions
  • Chapter 4. Summary
  • References
• Section 2A. Oral Health Across the Lifespan: Children
  • Chapter 1. Current Knowledge, Practice, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 2. Advances and Challenges
  • Chapter 3. Promising New Directions
  • Chapter 4. Summary
  • References
• Section 2B. Oral Health Across the Lifespan: Adolescents
  • Chapter 1. Current Knowledge, Practice, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 2. Advances and Challenges
  • Chapter 3. Promising New Directions
  • Chapter 4. Summary
  • References
• Section 3A. Oral Health Across the Lifespan: Working-Age Adults
  • Chapter 1. Status of Knowledge, Practice, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 2. Advances and Challenges
  • Chapter 3: Promising New Directions
  • Chapter 4. Summary
  • References
• Section 3B. Oral Health Across the Lifespan: Older Adults
  • Chapter 1. Status of Knowledge, Practice, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 2. Advances and Challenges
  • Chapter 3. Promising New Directions
  • Chapter 4. Summary
  • References
• Section 4. Oral Health Workforce, Education, Practice and Integration
  • Chapter 1. Status of Knowledge, Practice, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 2. Advances and Challenges
  • Chapter 3. Promising New Directions
  • Chapter 4. Summary
  • References
• Section 5. Pain, Mental Illness, Substance Use, and Oral Health
  • Chapter 1. Status of Knowledge, Practice, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 2. Advances and Challenges
  • Chapter 3. Promising New Directions
  • Chapter 4. Summary
  • References
• Section 6. Emerging Science and Promising Technologies to Transform Oral Health
  • Chapter 1. Current Knowledge, Practices, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 2. Advances and Challenges
  • Chapter 3. Promising New Directions
  • Chapter 4. Summary
  • References
• Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Reflections on the 2000 Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health
  • References

Suggested citation:

National Institutes of Health. Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges. Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, 2021.

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National Library of Medicine Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: United States. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, issuing body.

Title: Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges

Description: Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, 2021. | Includes bibliographic references

Subjects: MESH: Oral Health. | Dentistry. | United States.

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