Dental-medical divide

Ever wondered why your medical health insurance doesn't cover dental? Today we explore the confusing and convoluted relationship between dentistry and medicine as we hear why now might be the perfect time for change.

It's crazy how complicated the relationship is between your dentist and your other healthcare providers. There are cultural, institutional, regulatory, and financial barriers that would have to be dismantled for a better system to prevail. And the pandemic may be just the excuse we needed to work on making change.

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Oral Health Stakeholders: A  Time for Alignment and Action

Millbank Quarterly, 29 June 2021

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Shenam Ticku, BDS, MPH

Instructor

Dept. of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Boston, Mass.

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Jane Barrow, MPH

Associate Dean

Office of Global and Community Health

Executive Director

Initiative fo Integrate Oral Health and Medicine

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Boston, Mass.

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Jane Grover, DDS, MPH

Director

Council on Advocacy for Access and Prevention

American Dental Association

Chicago, Ill.

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Making the Case for Dental Coverage for Adults in All State Medicaid Programs

ADA Health Policy Institute, July 2021