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J Dent Educ. 70(11): 1159-1165 2006
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Professional Promises: Hopes and Gaps in Access to Oral Health Care

Basic Oral Health Needs: A Public Priority

David T. Ozar, Ph.D.

Key words: oral health, needs, ethics, desires, justice, social justice, professionalism

Is there a way to support a special ethical status for unmet oral health needs within our pluralistic, liberty-loving American society? Some people in American society, perhaps many people, believe that some kinds of human needs have special ethical importance. But very few people outside the oral health professions have ever considered that unmet oral health needs might belong to this category. This article will examine why some kinds of needs are thought to have special ethical importance and propose that certain categories of oral health care are needs that fit this description. Without thinking these issues through, we who argue for improved access to oral health care will remain unable to provide an adequate answer to a very legitimate question, namely: improved access to what? When this task has been completed, the article will consider some of the implications of such a view for our society.




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