Dental hygiene's interdisciplinary relationship with dental public health: a position paper.
Dental hygienists' collaboration with social institutions, health-care workers and organisations, educational institutions, and dentistry can prevent oral diseases. Dental hygienists working in these organisations can reach an unprecedented number of people, thereby increasing preventive oral care to many undeserved. Working within a dental public health career increases choices and opportunities for the dental hygienist and benefits the public.
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Division of Dental Hygiene, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. cnathe@salud.unm.edu
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003756:Dental Hygienists; D003777:Dental Prophylaxis; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011313:Preventive Dentistry; D011634:Public Health; D011636:Public Health Dentistry; D012574:Schools