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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
Revisiting Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General
David Satcher1, Joyce H Nottingham1
1David Satcher is the Founder and Senior Advisor of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Family Medicine, and Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, and was also the 16th Surgeon General of the United States. He is also a guest editor for this supplement issue. At the time of writing, Joyce H. Nottingham was with the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine.
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