Oral Health Sentinels
Improving oral health, preventing disease, and strengthening community care
Through research based initiatives we aim to bridge the gap between dentistry and medicine.
Our mission is to better understand the connection between oral health and chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and to use this knowledge to improve care and prevention strategies.
Responsibility
Connecting oral health to overall health.
Prevention
The best treatment is prevention -Saving smiles & lives.
Equity
Everyone deserves access to good oral health.
Why?
This initiative began when researchers and clinicians noticed how many patients with diabetes and heart disease also faced oral health challenges. Too often, these were overlooked until they became serious. Oral Health Sentinel was created to change that — to make the mouth part of the conversation on health.
