Oral health is an integral part of overall health. As such, delivery of oral health care must be integrated into a broader health care delivery with a focus on prevention. Since safety-net oral health programs provide services to underserved populations with a heavy burden of disease, it is important that they provide quality, evidence-based care.

This toolkit was created through a task force in partnership with the Oregon HPV Alliance, American Cancer Society, and OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. The toolkit provides resources for dental providers on HPV prevention including posters, patient education tools, provider fact sheets, and promotional materials.

In this promising practice, Finger Lakes Community Health developed and successfully implemented an innovative multifaceted program to ensure preschool, low income children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers have the ability to establish and maintain a dental home.

This promising practice describes a pilot project that was undertaken to prevent Early Childhood Caries through early intervention at WIC appointments.

This promising practice describes an initiative designed to increase the number of oral HIV testing conducted during a dental examination.

This promising practice describes the Children’s Hospital Boston and St. Joseph Hospital’s clinical protocol, implemented to manage early childhood caries in children younger than 60 months of age using a chronic disease management approach.

This promising practice describes how El Rio Community Health Center instituted an integrated, preventive approach to caries prevention utilizing the pediatric medical and dental professional staff, while simultaneously increasing access to care.

In this promising practice, the dental department at Clinica Family Health Services in Denver, CO, describes how they used a quality improvement tool to implement a new scheduling template, with the goal of increasing treatment plan completion rates.

This promising practice, WIC Dental Days of San Luis Obispo County, is an Early Childhood Caries prevention program focusing on improving the pivotal socio-ecological factors responsible for the development of ECC by increasing risk assessment, parental counseling, behavior modification and goal setting, preventive dental services and case management.

Learn about Bright Smiles for Bright Futures, a promising practice that provides free emergency and preventive care, and up to $600 allowance for restorative and/or periodontal care for as many as 400 pregnant women per year.

This promising practice describes how Swedish Community Specialty Clinic, working in conjunction with community partners, provides complex oral surgery procedures that safety net clinics are unable to provide for their non-insured and/or low-income patients.