The specialty of dental public health deals with communities and whole populations in many areas of oral health. It is a rewarding and complex specialty involving public and private sector health care professionals, local, state and federal governments, various funding sources and a changing economic social and financial environment.
In this video we address the important issues facing the dental public health industry; including access to care issues, oral health disparities, the Affordable Care Act, and the most pressing health policy issues dental public health is facing in the United States.