Statement attributable to:

Wanda Filer, MD, MBA, FAAFP
President, American Academy of Family Physicians

Benard P. Dreyer, MD, FAAP
President, American Academy of Pediatrics

Nitin S. Damle, MD, MS, FACP
President, American College of Physicians

Barbara Levy, MD
Vice President for Health Policy, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Good oral health is important to overall health

Philadelphia, May 31, 2016 -- The American College of Physicians (ACP) and New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing’s Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice (OHNEP) Program have teamed up to create four patient-related oral health literacy fact-sheets for distribution to internal medicine physicians and primary care providers.