Should oral health and systemic health actually be considered two different entities? We propose that the associations between oral diseases and other diseases elsewhere in the body be discussed within the context of oral and overall health, much in the same way a physician would.
Even if we began using the words ‘oral’ and ‘non-oral’ health, this would serve our purposes better than referring to oral and systemic health—as if oral health and systemic health were not one and the same, or at the very least two sides of the same coin.