Precision Health: Bringing Oral Health into the Context of Overall Health

Abstract

Unprecedented advances in genomics, data science, and biotechnology have ushered in a new era of health care in which interventions are increasingly tailored to individual patients. Precision-based approaches extend to oral health, which is essential to overall health. Harnessing the full potential of precision oral health will depend on research to more fully understand the factors that underlie health and contribute to disease—including the human genome, microbiome, epigenome, proteome, and others.