Advancing the Promise of Genomic Craniofacial-Oral-Dental Health Care

Harold Slavkin DDS, Representing the Santa Fe Group

Personalized or Precision Oral Health Care

Genomic technologies present precision tools with the potential to revolutionize risk assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and therapeutics, and elucidate the underpinnings of human craniofacial-oral-dental diseases and disorders. In this webinar, we summarize the critical forces accelerating personalized or precision health care, challenges to implementation, and the implications for clinical oral health care.

Participants will learn:

• Genomic technologies being used to discover patient risk as well as the diagnosis of rare and common diseases and disorders_____
• The applications of clinical genomic profiling and its role in personalized or precision dental caries, periodontal diseases, oral and pharyngeal cancers_____
• The challenges and potential for genomic craniofacial-oral-dental health care_____
• Implications for health professional education (dentistry, dental hygiene, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, social work and allied health professions) within universities as well as venues for continuing education for practitioners

Handouts:

• Basic Principles of Human Genetics: A Primer for Oral Medicine
• Genomics in Dentistry