Oral health, access to care, health disparities, health reform. The National Institutes of Health recently released only the second nationwide account of oral health in American history, Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges, after a 20-year follow-up to the seminal report of 2000, Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General. The original report was a groundbreaking and comprehensive examination of oral health across the United States, and the first to systematically characterize the state of U.S. oral health, detail its numerous challenges, and establish a framework of action for the public, policymakers, and health care providers to improve population oral health. Although the resulting strategies and approaches led to important national progress, many of our nation’s oral health challenges remain unaddressed or unresolved.1
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