Oral & Systemic Health Integration Program
Overview
The Oral and Systemic Health Integration Program aims to promote clinical research to advance knowledge in diagnosis, prevention, and management of Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial (DOC) diseases in the context of systemic health. The program supports research that evaluates the interaction between oral health and general health throughout the lifespan considering advances in science and health care integration to investigate promising directions for improving oral and comprehensive health. Relevant research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Examining the role of oral health providers and strategies to address comprehensive health needs of dental patients in dental settings and through interprofessional collaboration
- Enhancing interprofessional efforts to advance the integration of oral and comprehensive health
- Understanding how nutritional and environmental factors interact and contribute to the development of DOC diseases
- Exploring the mechanisms of the tri-directional relationship between nutrition, systemic health, and DOC health
- Assessing treatment outcomes and identifying best practices for treatment of the oral sequelae of chronic and systemic diseases
- Exploring mechanisms between maternal comprehensive health and stressors encountered in utero and the dental, oral, and craniofacial health and development of their offspring
- Understanding the interplay of DOC disease on systemic health and well-being in the geriatric population
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Program Officer
Oral & Comprehensive Health Program, Clinical Technology Research Program