NIH, HHS leaders call for research and policy changes to address oral health inequities
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Americans’ oral health has improved over the last two decades, but disparities in oral health have stubbornly persisted and pose a major global public health threat. Oral health care must be more affordable, accessible, and responsive to communities, write National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Director Dr. Rena N. D’Souza, Science Advisor to the President and former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, in a new perspective published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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