NYU College of Dentistry’s World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Quality-improvement, Evidence-based Dentistry hosted an event on oral health and universal health coverage on Sept. 20, leading up to the 2nd United Nations High-level Meeting on universal health coverage that was held on Sept. 21 in New York. The event, a collaboration with The Lancet, focused on … Read more
WHO is encouraging countries in South-East Asia to hasten their implementation of the new Action Plan for Oral Health 2022-2030, which plans to provide universal coverage for oral health for everyone in the region by 2030. According to WHO, South-East Asia has “the world’s highest oral cancer incidence and mortality rates, with age-standardized mortality for … Read more
Oral Science is pleased to share again with Canadian dental professionals that the World Health Organization (WHO) has, for the first time in 2021, added dental caries medications to its list of Essential Medications (EML and EMLc). Section 30 of the released document defines Fluoride toothpaste, Silver Diamine Fluoride and Glass Ionomers as Essential Medications. … Read more
On the fourth day of the 148th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board meeting, Member States passed a game-changing resolution on Oral health, spearheaded by the government of Sri Lanka. WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called it a “landmark resolution” and congratulated Sri Lanka for their work to push the resolution forward. The resolution garnered … Read more