Policy on Oral Health Care Programs for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Individuals with Special Health Care Needs

Policy statement

The AAPD advocates that oral health care must be included in the design and provision of individual, community-based, and national health care programs to achieve comprehensive health care. This can be achieved through the recommendations of the HHS reports Oral Health Initiative 2010²³ and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Oral Health Strategic Framework, 2014-2017 ²².