Editorial: Innovating and expanding universal access to oral healthcare

Bathsheba Turton^{1

2}, Callum Durward², Habib Benzian³

Affiliations

¹ Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Office of Global and Population Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
² Faculty of Dentistry, University of Puthisastra, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
³ WHO Collaborating Center, Quality Improvement and Evidence Based Dentistry, Epidemiology and Health Promotion, College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, NY, United States.

Editorial

Bathsheba Turton et al. Front Oral Health. 2022.

. 2022 Sep 26:3:1033469.

doi: 10.3389/froh.2022.1033469. eCollection 2022.

Bathsheba Turton^{1

2}, Callum Durward², Habib Benzian³

¹ Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Office of Global and Population Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
² Faculty of Dentistry, University of Puthisastra, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
³ WHO Collaborating Center, Quality Improvement and Evidence Based Dentistry, Epidemiology and Health Promotion, College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, NY, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: basic package of oral care; global health; inequalities (MeSH); oral health; universal health care (UHC).

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