Assessing the status of oral health integration in South East Asian Regional Office countries' Universal Health Coverage-A scoping review.
Shashidhar AcharyaManu Raj MathurSantosh Kumar TadakamadlaAngela BrandPublished in: The International journal of health planning and management (2024)
Our review highlighted the close connection between service quality and human resources, governance, and finance. There is a need to establish standardised dental treatment guidelines that are uniformly adopted across countries, integrate oral health into national health and development programs, push for functional oral health research through collecting robust surveillance, economic, and social impact data and the development of cost-effective strategies tailored to each country's unique needs.