A new definition for oral health developed by the FDI World Dental Federation opens the door to a universal definition of oral health

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.
• ² Global Oral Health, Institute of Dentistry, Bart's and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK.
• ³ School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
• ⁴ Health Policy Institute, American Dental Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
• ⁶ Department of Dental Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.