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• Oral Health Scholars Raise Awareness About the Relationship Between Oral and Systemic Health

  While oral health is often treated as something separate from overall health, it can act as an early warning system for serious conditions, including cancer and heart disease. With funding from the George E. Richmond Foundation, researchers at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are training graduate and undergraduate students to educate their communities about the importance of oral health and studying how to promote oral health in cancer survivors via a novel telehealth intervention.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: epidemiology, FLOSS Project, George Richmond Foundation Oral Health Scholars, oral health