Live Your Best Life with Better Oral Health

Please join the College's Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine for this installment of the Health and Community Program Series (formerly Grand Rounds), entitled “Live Your Best Life with Better Oral Health.”

It’s bigger than you think! According to , the estimated number of oral disease cases worldwide exceeds the combined number of cases of mental disorders, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancers.

They are all connected! We will explain in detail how oral diseases (gingivitis, periodontitis) and systemic diseases (diabetes, heart attack, stroke, liver disease, certain cancers) have important connections (mostly through inflammation) that give us clues to effective prevention and treatments… and healthier lifespans. 

The real integration of Oral Health Care and Systemic Health Care (physicians and dentists working together on the same patients in truly shared facilities) can dramatically lower overall health care costs!  We will show you the evidence. 

Presenters:

• Joseph R. Greenberg, DMD, FCPP
 
  Chair, Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine 
• Joan I. Gluch, PhD, RDH, PHDHP, FCPP
 
  Clinical Professor, Division of Community Oral Health 
  Penn Dental Medicine 
• Thomas Rams, DDS, MHS, PhD
 
  Professor Emeritus, Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology 
  Kornberg School of Dentistry at Temple University 
• Dana T. Graves, DDS, DMSc
 
  Professor, Vice Dean for Scholarship and Research 
  Director, Doctor of Science in Dentistry Program 
  Department of Periodontics 
  Penn Dental Medicine

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Please note:

The Health and Community Program Series is a free educational experience offered by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

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