In September 2024, a workshop was held, during the EADPH conference in Crete. It aimed to explore what constitutes essential oral healthcare and what are the challenges and solutions in adopting Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It also aimed to raise awareness of the need for oral health to be included in (UHC). The workshop was informed by presentations from five speakers. The attendees then divided into four break-out groups that discussed the topics of,: (1) Which oral health services and which population groups should be publicly funded ? (2) What are the most frequently demanded oral health services at your practice/in your region? (3) What are the most frequently provided services at your practice/in your region? (4) Which of these services are publicly covered and for whom? (5) What are the barriers and enablers for reaching universal health coverage? Each group then considered enablers and challenges to achieving the inclusion of oral health care in UHC and reported their findings and discussions in a plenary session,. during which the implications were discussed. The commentary, which follows, reports the proceedings of the workshop and discusses the implications of its findings.
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