The Common Risk Factor Approach (CRFA) to Oral Health Promotion
Conclusion

For the most part, dental health promotion has been isolated from other health promotion initiatives. Clinical dental preventive and educational approaches alone can only achieve limited results. The dental profession needs to adopt an integrated common risk factor approach with groups concerned about reducing NCDs. Dental health professionals are in a position to couple with community stakeholders to address modifiable behavioral risk factors with appropriate health promotion information. Taking this combined approach can greatly reducing the morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases and decrease the incidence of oral diseases. Although many of the suggestions for coupling with community stakeholders are volunteer initiatives, for real change to occur changes should be long-term sustainable programs. Dental health professionals can work within and between their professional organizations to find enduring solutions.