This analysis highlights the need to confront exclusion in dental education to enhance health equity in communities.
Commitments to health equity must make essential the acknowledgment of and address the subtle exclusion that persists across health disciplines. Without confronting the profound marginalization that othering permits across the oral health professions, efforts to improve oral health outcomes will fall short of their full potential in truly cultivating health equity.
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