American Association of Public Health Dentistry

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The American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD), founded in 1937, focuses upon addressing the public health challenges to oral health at the population level. Its open membership for everyone who seeks improvement in oral health of the general public. supports developing and supporting effective programs of oral health promotion and disease prevention. [1] [2] It is headquartered in Springfield, Illinois.[ citation needed ]

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Mission

Public health dentistry is defined as by TheFreeDictionary.com as "that specialty of dentistry concerned with the prevention and control of dental diseases and promotion of oral health through organized community efforts."[ citation needed ]

Organization

The American Association of Public Health Dentistry was founded in 1937. AAPHD publishes a newsletter for AAPHD members and a journal, the Journal of Public Health Dentistry. [3] It offers online continuing education courses for public health dentists in oral health literacy, dental public health policy and advocacy, and professional dental ethics. [4]

Since October 2014, Julie Frantsve-Hawley, PhD, [5] has been the executive director of AAPHD. [6] She had been with American Dental Association before and had edited journals in evidence-based dentistry.[ citation needed ]

Each year it plans a National Oral Health Conference® (NOHC) in the United States, which next will be held from April 16–18, 2018 in Louisville, Kentucky. [7]

AAPHD student chapters are found in major US dental schools. [8] [9] [10] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Home page". www.aaphd.org.
  2. ↑ "ABDPH". www.aaphd.org.
  3. ↑ "[No title found]". Journal of Public Health Dentistry. doi:10.1111/(issn)1752-7325.
  4. ↑ "Dental Public Health online courses".
  5. ↑ Genetics, Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, Harvard University, 2002
  6. ↑ "LinkedIn article for Julie Frantsve-Hawley, PhD".
  7. ↑ "National Oral Health Conference – The Premier Meeting for Dental Public Health".
  8. ↑ "Combined CAGS in Pediatric Dentistry » Academics | Boston University". www.bu.edu.
  9. ↑ Home page of the Student Chapter of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) of the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine in Boston
  10. ↑ Dental Central: Home page of the Student Chapter of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
  11. ↑ Home page of the Student Chapter of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) Archived 2017-09-17 at the Wayback Machine of Indiana University School of Dentistry
  12. ↑ "Nurses Week 2023: Honoring Nurses". ANA Enterprise 2022 Initiatives – Home.
  13. ↑ "Home". ao.org.
  14. ↑ Alpha Omega International at BU's Goldman School of Dental Medicine
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