.@lisathedoc, MD, DMD delves into the barriers to oral health care yoked to societal harms that impact health and well-being on a larger scale including structural racism, environmental injustice, and workforce inequity in her letter from the editor: https
As noted by @lisathedoc, MD, DMD, it’s obvious that our mouths are part of our bodies. Yet within the modern health care system, it’s hard to imagine any other body part that is treated as distinctly: https://t.co/OkNFCqZdyC
As @lisathedoc writes, although the separation of medicine and dentistry in the United States stems from decisions made decades and even centuries ago, it continues to have lasting and meaningful impact on the lived experiences of millions of Americans: ht