At their recent salon, Expanding Oral Healthcare for America’s Seniors, the Santa Fe Group and a diverse group of leaders came together to develop initiatives to improve the understanding on aging and oral health.

In this interview with Compendium, Dr. Teresa Dolan, Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Dentsply Sirona, speaks on the need to convince policy makers that oral health is in fact important to the overall health of seniors and to demonstrate the value of dental benefits in Medicare.