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Evaluation

Weekend Workshop

Medical-Dental-Behavioral Integration Across the Lifespan: Challenges and Opportunities

Sunday, April 14, 2024
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST
Location: Sterling 9
CE: 2.0
Disclosure(s):
Tamanna Tiwari, BDS, MDS, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose
Lisa J. Heaton, PhD: CareQuest Institute for Oral Health: Employee (Ongoing)
Nicole Johnson, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose
Session Description: The relationship between systemic health, mental wellbeing, and oral health has been well-documented over the years. Successful sustainability of medical-dental integration (MDI) models includes identifying a core set of objectives and actions to increase integration and support for whole-person integrated care and interprofessional training and practice. Participants will learn how oral conditions such as periodontal disease are linked to systemic conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease and behavioral health disorders such as substance use. Challenges to implementing such integrated models will be discussed, as well as successful medical-dental-behavioral models. Speakers will discuss key aspects of robust integrated efforts that address these connections across the lifespan. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their own experiences with integrated models and discuss challenges and opportunities with other attendees.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the oral-behavioral-systemic connection for at least three systemic conditions from across the lifespan, from the prenatal period through older age.
  • Discuss how medical-dental-behavioral integration addresses the oral-systemic connection and health-related behavior change.
  • Reflect on their own experiences with integrated models and discuss challenges and opportunities with other attendees.