| CARE: We know that oral health impacts overall health. And preventive care is critical to both. To create better care and better health outcomes for everyone, we are redefining what that care looks like. This means looking beyond the dental chair and into the community so people can receive care where they are — in schools, community centers and nursing homes. It means better integrating with medical care, and expanding access to create more opportunities for people to receive dental care |
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| VALUE: The key to realizing better health through oral health is to reward value over volume. For more than two centuries, dentists have practiced using a model that incentivizes high-cost, complex procedures and focuses on the volume of care that gets delivered. It’s time for a new approach — one in which dentists are rewarded for quality health outcomes rather than the quantity of care delivered. |
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| INNOVATION: Disrupting the status quo and investing in new solutions is essential when you want to create large-scale change. Our future demands a more compassionate, integrated oral health experience for all. That includes embracing new technologies, using minimally invasive care and focusing on prevention and whole-person health. Innovations including teledentistry, medical-dental integration and new payment models will help us get there. |
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TRANSFORMATION: Oral health is an essential component of our overall health that we can’t afford to silo from the rest of the health care system. It costs too much — for patients and the system. Changing this reality requires more than just expanding dental coverage; it will take a concerted, collaborative effort from every stakeholder in the system. Together, providers, policy makers, payors, employers and patients will need to work together to build a better oral health system for all.
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