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Patient Advocacy Friends of NIDCR is actively involved in patient advocacy efforts associated with the importance of dental, oral, and craniofacial health to society. The key to staying healthy starts with proper oral health care. And support for oral health research starts with you. Patient Advocacy Agenda We blend leaders from the scientific and professional communities, and from patient advocacy groups, to provide a common voice for our patient advocacy agenda. Our goal is to ensure appropriate funding exists for dental and craniofacial research that is conducted at NIDCR. Discoveries from such funding lead to improvements in dental practices, change the scope of our public health policies, and ease the burden on our nation’s healthcare system. For example, NIDCR research benefits millions of Americans with:
Combined, oral health diseases and ailments lead to two million hospitalizations and 100,000 deaths annually at a cost of $100 billion to our nation’s healthcare system. Lend your voice to help support proper funding for dental and craniofacial research and ensure that major breakthroughs continue that position the United States as a global leader in medical research. |