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MEDIUMResearchTier 1

Oral health and systemic health outcomes: a call for interdisciplinary action

SourcePeriodontology 2000Tier 1Peer-Reviewed Research

By Moritz Kebschull, Ryan T. Demmer, Nigel Pitts, Huda Yusuf, Gitana Rederiene, Nikolaos Donos, Wim Teughels, Raman Bedi, Orsolya Nemeth, Mia Rakic, Stéphanie Tubert‐Jeannin, Raimondo Ascione, Francesco D'Aiuto, James Deschner, Thomas Dietrich, Mili Doshi, Julian Fisher, Ramón Juanatey, Phoebus Madianos, Katalin Nagy, Barry Quinn, Saulė Skinkytė, Lina Stangvaltaite‐Mouhat, Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Josep Vilaseca, Nicola West, Anton Sculean, Andreas Stavropoulos, Kenneth Eaton, Joint EFP/EADPH Working Group

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Why it matters for dental

Dental practices—especially periodontists and primary-care dentists—need to align documentation and referral workflows with emerging evidence that links periodontal inflammation to systemic disease risk; failure to communicate these findings may expose practices to liability and limit medical-dental integration revenue.

Key points

  • The article appears in Periodontology 2000 (EarlyView), a peer-reviewed specialty journal focused on periodontal literature.
  • Authors issue an explicit call for interdisciplinary action between dental and medical teams regarding oral-systemic health outcomes.
  • No specific effective dates, statutes, or payer policy changes are stated in the source.
  • Content is research-oriented, providing clinicians with rationale to update patient-education materials and inter-professional referral pathways.

Who should care

SpecialistAcademia

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