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Dental Hygienists Against Heart Disease (DHHD) is an international coalition of oral health advocates who are committed to enhancing the public’s knowledge and awareness of oral health, and its relation to systemic health. DHHD is dedicated to help the clinical dental hygienist expand their role in helping other health care professionals with the responsibility of achieving and maintaining the total health of the public. Since 2003, DHHD has been dedicated to providing dental hygienists with quality education through the internet, professional publications, continuing education programs and home study courses. Dental hygienists are provided with evidence-based recommendations to disseminate to their patients about the relationships between oral and systemic health, and the risk factors for periodontal disease that influence heart disease and diabetes, as well as the lifestyle to reduce risk.
DHHD Objectives:
- To raise awareness and understanding of oral health and improve the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of health care professionals and the public.
- To raise awareness of the seriousness of cardiovascular disease, and the connection between periodontal diseases, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and adverse pregnancy outcomes.
- To provide relevant and reliable information to make necessary behavioral changes and informed health decisions.
- To promote healthy lifestyles and give health care professionals, their patients and the public, the necessary tobacco cessation, nutrition and diabetes resources they need to make healthy lifestyle choices, promoting total health and supporting oral health.
- To promote key U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) programs related to tobacco use, obesity prevention, and diabetes prevention and management.
- To promote monthly National Health Observances.
- To create local, state and national partnerships to enhance health promotion and disease prevention efforts.
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C. Austin Risbeck, RDH
President, Founder
Dental Hygienists Against Heart Disease
AustinRDH@PreventionSpecialist.com
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Lory Laughter, RDH
Vice President
Dental Hygienists Against Heart Disease
MomyLaugh@aol.com
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