title: Women's oral health: growing evidence for enhancing perspectives.
abstract: Women's health, including oral health, is an evolving science with foundation knowledge from many disciplines. Key milestones, particularly in the last decade, provide a roadmap towards the necessary inclusion of gender into dental practice. Such focus is especially important for the evolving role of oral health care providers as primary health care providers. Continued progress of the vibrant incorporation of evidence-based women's oral health into the standard practice of oral health care is encouraged. This expanded preface provides an introduction to this DCNA issue, a brief history and timeline of major women's oral health events, and resources for further consideration.
authors.affiliation: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Meharry Medical College, School of Dentistry, Nashville, TN 37208, USA. leslie.halpern@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Leslie R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Halpern
authors.forename: Linda M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Kaste
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Briggs
authors.forename: Luisa A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: DiPietro
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Erwin
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frantsve-Hawley
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Heaton
authors.forename: Michelle M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Henshaw
authors.forename: Renée
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Joskow
authors.forename: Susan T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Reisine
authors.forename: Jeanne C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sinkford
mesh_terms: D000571:American Dental Association; D018865:Dental Research; D004497:Education, Dental; D055094:Evidence-Based Dentistry; D005179:Faculty, Dental; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009909:Oral Health; D014481:United States; D016387:Women's Health / Q000266:history