A medical-dental schism from 1840 persists and prevents oral health’s integration with overall health, to many patients’ detriment.

Five lessons from the patient-centered medical home could help motivate infrastructure investment, care innovation, and payment reforms critical to achieving equity.

Division between medical and dental care exacerbates health inequity and forces many with compromised access to seek oral health care in emergency departments.

Continued separation of dental and oral health from general medical care generates unnecessary prescriptions and pain management that are neither restorative nor responsive to patients’ primary complaints.

COVID-19 teaches us how to design a unified health care system that transcends historical precedent.

It’s obvious that our mouths are part of our bodies. Yet in health care today, it’s hard to imagine any other body part so wholly neglected.

In 2015, a community health center in Boston, Massachusetts, implemented a model of interdisciplinary care in a nationwide pilot.

Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General.

Mistakes and lessons from AMA history situate the AMA now for antiracist leadership in the health care sector.