Oral Health Equity Must Address Oppression: On the BSSOH Consensus Statement

The Consensus Statement on Future Directions for the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Oral Health (Consensus Statement) is a transformational contribution to oral health research synthesizing a wide array of conceptual, methodological, and disciplinary concerns and offering strategies to improve scientific inquiry. The Consensus Statement explicates global oral health equity as a foundational concern of our field. Given this context, a key concern is missing from the statement: oppression!

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The Consensus Statement on Future Directions for the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Oral Health is a transformative contribution to oral health research, offering strategies to improve scientific inquiry. However, it fails to address the issue of oppression.