Congressional Briefings and Hearings on Oral Health

Forum

Senate Special Committee on Aging, "Ageism in Health Care: Are Our Nation's Seniors Receiving Proper Oral Health Care?" September 22, 2003, 2-4pm, Dirksen Senate Office Building.

OHA is one of 15 organizations that provided testimony on oral health and older Americans.

Briefing

House of Representatives Lunch Briefing on Women's Oral Health Issues, June 5, 2003, 12-2pm, House Science Committee Hearing Room.

Moderated by Kathy Roth, DDS, and Dushanka Kleinman, DDS. Sponsored by the American Dental Association and Society for Women's Health Research.

Hearing

House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, June 3, 2003. "Can Tobacco Cure Smoking?- A Review of Tobacco Harm Reduction.

Oral Health America was asked by counsel to the subcommittee to identify witnesses and background information to this hearing, primarily on spit (smokeless) tobacco. Joe Garagiola, chairman of OHA's National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) and NSTEP spokesman Doug Harvey sent letters to subcommittee members. OHA generated sign-on letters, and partnered with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to produce an advertisement which ran in the Washington Post, Roll Call and Capitol Times.

Testimony by Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS, U.S. Surgeon General

Hearing

Government Reform Committee, June 3, 2003. "Potential Reduced Exposure/Reduced Risk Products: An Examination of the Possible Public Health Impact and Regulatory Challenges."

Briefing

Congressional Prevention Coalition, September 24, 2002

Oral Health America and the Partnership for Prevention hosted a hearing for the 70+ members of the Congressional Prevention Coalition on ways to improve oral health care access for children, elderly, and people with disabilities. Dr. Burton Edelstein and Dr. Gregory Folse provided testimony. A Healthcast of the briefing can be found on Kaisernetwork.org, or by clicking here.

National Legislation

To access national legislation on the web, please visit the Library of Congress web site and enter the title or number of the legislation you are interested in. You can also search by related words, such as "oral health."

Oral Health America is the only national, independent 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to improving oral health for all Americans