We resolve that the separation of oral health from the nation’s healthcare systems can no longer be accepted. Meaningful progress requires dismantling structural barriers, directing resources where needs are greatest, and ensuring equitable access to integrated care. This effort extends beyond improving coordination between medical and dental services. It represents an opportunity to transform how the United States defines health, organizes care, allocates resources, and holds institutions accountable for improving well-being.

We commit to a shared vision: a future in which every person has access to integrated, equitable, person-centered care, and in which oral health is fully embedded within the nation’s approach to health, wellness, and longevity.

We affirm a shared commitment to ensuring that oral health is recognized, financed, delivered, and measured as an essential component of whole-person care. The evidence is clear: the long-standing separation of oral health from the broader healthcare system contributes to preventable disease, fragmented care, inequitable access, avoidable costs, and diminished quality of life. We commit to mobilizing collective action through commitment to aligned network priorities, sustained leadership, enabling infrastructure, and accountability.

We also commit to changing the narrative by recognizing oral health as a vital pathway to wellness and longevity.

We further affirm that communities most affected by health inequities must be active partners in shaping priorities, designing solutions, implementing changes, and evaluating outcomes. Together, we will align our efforts, measure progress, share learning, and advance the systems change necessary to ensure that oral health is no longer treated as separate from health itself.