If We Treated Tooth Decay Like We Treat Heart Disease, We’d Save Billions
Oral diseases cost Americans almost $140 billion annually. What will it take to bring these costs down?
Teresa (Terri) Dolan
Dr. Teresa (Terri) Dolan is the Chief Dental Officer at Overjet, a dental AI platform. She is also professor and dean emeritus of the University of Florida College of Dentistry, where she served as dean and chief academic officer from 2003 until 2013. Dr. Dolan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University; she earned a DDS degree from the University of Texas and a MPH degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Dental Health Services Research Scholar, completed a Veterans Administration Fellowship in Geriatric Dentistry, and is board certified in Dental Public Health. She currently serves as past-president of the Santa Fe Group, president of the American College of Dentists, and serves on the board of directors of the ADA Forsyth (formerly the American Dental Association Science and Research Institute).