225061 Family Centered Health Home - A Health Practice Model to Improve Total Health through an Innovative Dental Education Model

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 : 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Jack Dillenberg, DDS, MPH , Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health, A.T. Still University, Mesa, AZ
     
Integration of medicine and dentistry go beyond looking at pathologies in the oral cavity as markers for systemic illness. Oral health care professionals have shown to be a resource for the identification of individuals at risk for many chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, by screening for high blood pressure, cholesterol, and plasma glucose levels. At the same time, pediatricians have started to integrate oral health exams and provide fluoride varnish to children who have yet to find a dental home.

This presentation will address the advantages and disadvantages associated with bringing the medical home and dental home closer in order to provide patient centered, family oriented, comprehensive and coordinated preventive health care to all people through an innovative dental school model.

Learning Areas:
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
1. The participant will be able to describe an innovative dental education model that prioritizes community service and public health. 2. The participant will be able to discuss the advantages of a clinical dental school model that partners with community health centers. 3. The participant will be able to explain the importance of a dental education model that is based on total person health.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Inagural Dean of the first dental school in the United States that is providing this innovative model of community service oriented dental education. I am also a former state Health Director.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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