Oral health care providers and patients will receive more frequent, evidence-informed recommendations to advance oral and overall health with the establishment of ADA Living Guideline Program, a collaboration between the American Dental Association (ADA) and the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health. It is the first and only known living guideline program dedicated to oral health.
Guideline topics are selected and prioritized by an advisory group composed of a representative from the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs and several governmental and professional dental organizations.
“This initiative builds upon previous foundational work on guideline development at the American Dental Association and leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to enable continual and rapid incorporation of scientific findings from the biomedical literature into new and existing guidelines,” says Principal Investigator Dr. Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Associate Professor and Director, Cochrane Oral Health Collaborating Center at Penn Dental Medicine.
Guidelines contain evidence-informed recommendations formulated by independent panels, including patient representatives, designed to assist patients, oral health providers, and other health care professionals as a resource when making informed and shared care decisions.
Living guidelines uphold the methodological rigor of traditional guidelines but are updated as soon as new evidence emerges and is carefully reviewed. This enhancement of the traditional guideline process, which usually updates every 3-5 years, allows patients, the profession, policymakers and others to adopt the information more quickly and timely manner.
