PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Oral Health
Sec. Oral Health Promotion
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/froh.2025.1664261
This article is part of the Research TopicDriving Research for Oral Health, Planetary Health and Sustainable DevelopmentView all 6 articles
Achieving oral and planetary health; how sports dental medicine can pioneer and realize transformation in oral healthcare
Provisionally accepted
- 1SBMC Academy, Teufen, Switzerland
- 2DGSZM, Nürnberg, Germany
- 3ÖGSZM, Salzburg, Austria
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The present manuscript is consistent with the objectives and scope of Frontiers in Oral Medicine, particularly the Oral Health Promotion section. The text presents a forward-looking perspective on how the potential of sports dental medicine can act as a catalyst for promoting sustainable and AI-enhanced oral healthcare. The article discusses a conceptual shift toward preventive, interprofessional and transdisciplinary collaboration, technology-integrated models of care, including key themes such as health promotion, system-level innovation and planetary health.
Keywords: sports dentistry, sustainability, minimum intervention oral healthcare, artificial intelligence, Planetary health, Health Promotion, Transdisciplinary care, Oral-systemic
Received: 11 Jul 2025; Accepted: 30 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Stavros Avgerinos, stavros@avgerinos.de
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