Clinicians for Oral Health

The National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health is a consortium of funders and health professionals whose vision is that dental disease can be eradicated. The mission of the NIIOH is to engage primary care clinicians to be:

• alert to their patients’ oral health needs
• ready and willing to deliver oral health preventive services to patients of all ages and to
• partner effectively with dental specialists

National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health participants are motivated by the knowledge that dental disease

• impacts overall health
• results in avoidable pain and expense ($60 billion annually)
• can be prevented by interventions that work

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The NIIOH is a systems change initiative focused on the education and training systems that support  primary care clinicians from disciplines including:

• Family Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Nursing
• Physician Assistants
• Ob/Gyn
• Internal Medicine