Showing posts with label Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foundation. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

DentaQuest Foundation grassroots grantees ready to leap for oral health

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I recently heard the perfect analogy for our oral health advocacy during the DentaQuest Foundation’s Grassroots Engagement Strategy annual ...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Prioritizing Our Seniors: Why Offering Medicare Dental Coverage Matters

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More than 46 million seniors lack dental coverage, according to a 2015 report on enrollment from the National Association of Dental Plans...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Why are dentistry and oral health care practices seemingly easy to question?

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The topic of evidence in dentistry and oral health care has been in the news a lot recently, with articles like this column in the New Yor...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Oral Health Disparities between Men and Women

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Did you know men are more likely to get oral cancer than women? Men are also more likely to skip dentist and doctor visits. For Men’s Hea...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Engaging Grassroots with Grassmiddles to Facilitate Changes in Oral Health Equity

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Why should grassroots and grassmiddles engage for oral health care? “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together....
Friday, October 28, 2011

Building a Movement for Optimal Oral Health

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By Ralph Fuccillo, President, DentaQuest Foundation According to a recent report from the Institute of Medicine, “Millions of Americans a...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Making Coverage Matter: Pew’s 50 State Report on Children’s Oral Health

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On May 24th, The Pew Center on the States , with support from the DentaQuest Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation , issued its second ann...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Maryland Dental Action Coalition Launches 5-Year Oral Health Plan

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On May 17, the Maryland Dental Acton Coalition proudly presented a 5-year (2011-2015) state plan to promote the oral health of all Marylande...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Report from the Field: National Oral Health Conference, 2011

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If you’re involved in public health dental care, are a health researcher, dental educator, legislator, public health official, Medicaid/CHIP...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Recognizing One of Our Own

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This June 5 and 6, the AIDS Walk in Massachusetts celebrates a milestone--25 years. On the occasion of this silver anniversary, the AIDS Act...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Massachusetts has an oral health plan

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The plan, presented at the Massachusetts State House by the Better Oral Health for Massachusetts Coalition on April 12, is the result of ove...