Commentary: Moving Beyond Charitable Dental Missions: The Pursuit of Equitable Partnerships to Reduce Oral Health Disparities

Abstract

Drs. Cunha-Cruz and Senturia point to the lack of systematic evaluative evidence that international service-learning benefits dental students, universities, and the U.S. healthcare system, and challenge us to create metrics that would enable critical evaluation of global health experiences as a first step in developing equitable partnerships designed to reduce oral health disparities.