COLGATE ORAL HEALTH NETWORK & SANTA FE GROUP
Webinar Series
Explore the 2024 Webinar Series from the Colgate Oral Health Network and the Santa Fe Group, featuring in-depth discussions on key issues at the intersection of oral health, policy, and overall healthcare. Developed in collaboration with Santa Fe Group members, senior scholars, and consultants, this series dives into vital topics such as medical-dental integration, Medicare’s impact on oral health, and the challenges of publicly supported dental benefits programs in the US.
The webinars are available on-demand, allowing you to access valuable insights and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the dental field.
Stay tuned as we’re already planning for the 2025 webinar series—more details coming soon. Be sure to check back!
Accelerating Best Practice in Medical-Dental Integration
This webinar will explore issues including oral health interventions in primary care education and practice, the integration of primary care screenings into dental practices, and access to shared data to support a patient-centered, integrated approach to healthcare.
Santa Fe Group Medicare Update
The purpose of this webinar is to describe the rationale for inclusion of dental care in Medicare, define medically necessary dental care, discuss progress to date, and identify next steps.
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Publicly Supported Dental Benefits Programs within the U.S.
This webinar will provide information about the differences in funding for oral health care between Medicare and Medicaid; and where and why the gaps in publicly available dental coverage for adults leave large unmet needs.
