Resources

Dental disease hurts more than our teeth. It’s tied to our overall health. Tooth decay can risk our physical, mental, and economic wellbeing. It also strains state budgets. Policy barriers…

What are Essential Health Benefits (EHBs)? In the simplest of terms: Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) are the health care services that most health plans across the country must cover: services…

Having access to a full range of oral health services can improve peoples’ oral and overall health, their dental care experience, and their ability to choose the care that’s right…

Minimally-Invasive Care and a Representative Oral Health Workforce  Introduction When traditional dental procedures — like drilling and filling cavities and pulling teeth — are medically necessary, access to them is…

Language matters when it comes to advocating with and for individuals with substance use disorders. Many of the common terms used to describe people with problematic use of drugs and…

Dental therapists are highly trained oral health practitioners that work with dental teams similar to the way physicians’ assistants work with medical teams. Along with providing education and preventive services,…

The relationship between reimbursement rates and access to care with several additional policy solutions that center equity and community voice.

This resource provides information on oral health data and sources that advocates can use to describe access to care barriers, oral health problems, and disparities, and to make the case…

This resource provides an overview of qualitative data from a variety of sources showing the importance of oral health to community members. 

This brief provides an overview of key findings from the NIDCR report, focusing on opportunities for policy change toward oral health equity and racial justice.