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…

Why minimally-invasive care is critical to health justice Minimally-invasive care (MIC) offers ways to protect and improve oral health — while giving people options about the care they want to…

An advocacy resource on advancing community-centered oral health policy.

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…

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,…

Minimally-Invasive Care (MIC) is effective care that’s less complex than what most people are used to. When people think of dental care, they most often imagine “traditional” dental procedures like…

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…