Advocacy

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Policies, Guidelines, Position Statements, and Fact Sheets

The Academy of General Dentistry supports the following principles as its policies on dental care.

Access to Care
• Position Statement on Increasing Access to and Use of Oral Health Care Services

Amalgam
• See Materials and Medications

Analyzed Health Care Data
• AGD Policies on Analyzed Health Care Data

Anesthesia / Sedation
• AGD Policies on Anesthesia / Sedation
• AGD White Paper on Enteral Conscious Sedation

Benefits
• For Dental Benefits Issues, see Insurance / Reimbursement Issues

Bleaching Trays
• See Equipment and Devices

Children
• See Patients

Community Health Centers
• Policy Statement on Community Health Centers

Dental Team / Workforce Issues
• AGD Policies on Dental Team and Workforce Issues

Equipment and Devices
• AGD Policies on Equipment and Devices, including Intraoral Impressions and Fabrication of Intraoral Appliances and Devices

Evidence Based Dentistry
• See Insurance / Reimbursement Issues

Fluoride
• AGD Policies on Fluoride

General Dentists’ Rights, Responsibilities, and Practice Protocols
• AGD Policies on General Dentists’ Rights, Responsibilities, and Practice Protocols

Insurance / Reimbursement Issues
• AGD Policies on Dental Insurance / Reimbursement
• AGD Policies on Evidence Based Dentistry
• Guidelines on the Coordination of Dental Benefits

Licensing
• AGD Policies on Dentists’ Licensure

Materials and Medications
• AGD Policies on Materials, including Amalgam
• Practical Approach to Improving the Quality of Water Used for Routine Dental Treatment

Nutrition and Oral Health
• Policies on Nutrition and Oral Health, including Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health, Implementation Plan

Patients
• AGD Policies on Pediatric Dentistry
• AGD Policies on “freedom of choice” of provider
• AGD Policies on the support of medically indigent patients
• AGD Policies on medically compromised dental patients
• Policy Statement on Treatment of Medically Compromised Dental Patients

Public Education
• AGD Policies on Public Education

Referrals
• AGD’s General Guidelines for Referring Dental Patients to Specialists and Other Settings for Care

Research
• AGD Policies on Research

TMD / TMJ
• AGD Policies on TMD and TMJ

Tooth Numbering
• AGD Policy on Tooth Numbering