This chairside guide provides recommendations based on the Lucerne Care Pathway to support targeted service-delivery strategies that avoid under- and over-treatment and foster a life-course approach to oral health.

This toolkit is a practical guide that helps dental students recognize and respond to common mental-health challenges (stress, burnout, imposter syndrome, hierarchical pressure, cultural isolation, and lack of peer connection) and includes short self-assessment exercises, practical coping steps, and signposted external resources.

This resources encourages the integration of simple, regular practices to reduce anxiety, foster calmness, and support mental health during training and work.

Survey also shows that half of the responding countries have agreed to include dentists in their priority vaccination groups.

The fourth UN HLM on NCDs (HLM4) will take place on Thursday, 25 September 2025. FDI and IADR are mobilizing all stakeholders with interest in oral health ahead of HLM4 through coherent and aligned recommendations for governments. 

These proceedings are based on the FDI-NCD Alliance joint session that took place during the FDI World Dental Congress in Madrid, Spain on 30 August 2017. The session focused on leveraging the NCD movement to advance oral health, with a particular focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This chairside guide advises oral health professionals on how to screen for the most common sites of oral cancer: tongue, insides of cheeks and floor of the mouth.

Oral cancer is a type of head and neck cancer and is any cancerous tissue growth located in the oral cavity. This guide focuses on oral cancer, which dentists can detect by observing the oral mucosa, as it is both superficial and accessible.