Oral and Systemic Health: Border Dentistry and the Borders of Dental Practice

Dear Colleagues,

This Topical Collection aims to meet the need to provide a response to the excessive compartmentalization of knowledge that has traditionally existed between dentistry and other disciplines, such as health sciences, life sciences, and social and environmental sciences. In particular, the growing crisis of the traditional “disease-centered” care system requires a radical rethinking of traditional dental and oral health management, favoring a paradigm shift toward a multidisciplinary “patient-centered” care approach. Indeed, the need to face emerging problems, such as the progressive aging of the population with the associated increase in dental care needs, and the appearance of new opportunities, in particular the impact of technological progress on healthcare, represent the pillars on which to build novel therapeutic strategies in dentistry.

The aim of this Topical Collection is to provide a platform on which different specialists can address, in a multidisciplinary way, “border dentistry”, highlighting the links between oral and systemic health.

Prof. Dr. Giuseppina Campisi
Dr. Marco Mascitti
Collection Editors

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