ArticleJournal of public health dentistry2026
Dental Public Health as Prime Catalyst for Advancing Solidarity and Accompaniment Within Dental Service-Learning and Community-Based Dental Education.
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- Dental Public Health as Prime Catalyst for Advancing Solidarity and Accompaniment Within Dental Service-Learning and Community-Based Dental Education.Journal of public health dentistry · 2026Article
- Reimagining a justice oriented professionalism: a call for relational ethics in oral health education.Frontiers in dental medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis commentary examines US-based dental service learning (DSL), community-based dental education (CBDE), and dental public health residency education in light of the profession's ethical commitments, social contract, and reparative obligations. Drawing on the introduction into US-based global dental education of Brocher Declaration principles including mutual partnership, capacity strengthening, humility, accountability, sustainability, responsiveness, and respect for local values, the authors consider how frameworks of solidarity and accompaniment can transform dental learning in domestic community settings to produce truly justice-centered ethical clinicians in future dental public health, community dentistry, and dental private practice spheres.
methodsWe critically assessed the APHA, AAPHD, and ADA professional codes of ethics, which guide DSL, CBDE, and dental public health residency education, and compared with frameworks of solidarity and accompaniment along the following dimensions: core focus, primary audience, values emphasized, ethical scope, reflection and deliberation, justice framing, veracity (truth-telling), and accountability.
resultsThe APHA, AAPHD, and ADA codes of ethics emphasize justice, truth-telling, and professional responsibility but differ in scope, from individual clinical care to population-level health. We demonstrate how frameworks of solidarity and accompaniment can deepen dental professional codes of ethics by expanding traditional principles to include relationality, proximity to suffering, and structural critique.
conclusionsThis commentary positions dental public health as a critical catalyst for transforming DSL/CBDE by embracing solidarity and accompaniment as guiding ethical frameworks and by redefining success through humility, shared purpose, authentic partnership, community-driven metrics, and culturally responsive pedagogy. Doing so will inculcate in dental professionals sustainable, responsive, accountable, and justice-oriented practices and will strengthen the future of public health dentistry by cultivating clinicians committed to equity beyond episodic outreach. The paper concludes with recommendations for curricular reform and institutional alignment to support this paradigm.
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