This groundbreaking collaboration between the American Dental Association (ADA) and the Center for Global Integrated Oral Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry is the first and only known Guidelines for Life initiative dedicated to oral health.
“Oral disease is estimated to affect nearly half of the world’s population, and the number of cases is growing faster than the global population,” said Dr. Ashraf Fouad, chair of the ADA’s Committee on Scientific Affairs and professor and chair of the Department of Endodontics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry.
The ADA Guidelines for Life project will provide dentists and other healthcare professionals with continuously updated, evidence-based information to help improve their patients’ oral health. ”
The project’s first focus is to update the 2017 ADA Guidelines for the Evaluation of Oral Malignancies of Potential and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma. The first recommendations are expected to be published digitally in the Journal of the American Dental Association later this year.
Guideline topics are selected and prioritized by an advisory panel comprised of representatives from the ADA’s Council on Scientific Affairs and multiple other government and professional dental organizations.
“This initiative builds on the ADA’s previous foundational work in guideline development, leveraging artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to rapidly and continuously incorporate scientific findings from the biomedical literature into new and existing guidelines,” said lead investigator Alonso, associate professor and director of the Cochrane Collaborating Center for Oral Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry. said Carrasco-Labra, MD.
Guidelines contain evidence-based recommendations developed by an independent panel and are intended to help patients, oral healthcare providers, and healthcare professionals make informed medical decisions.
Dynamic guidelines retain the methodological rigor of traditional guidelines but are updated as new evidence emerges and is carefully reviewed. Traditional guidelines are typically updated every 3-5 years, while advances in dynamic guidelines keep patients, healthcare providers, policymakers, and others informed more quickly.
“We are proud to bring this important service to our industry and look forward to improving the oral health of millions of patients through these guidelines,” said Dr. Mark Wolf, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry.
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