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only through behavioral and social scientific input to effect knowledge transfer and influence public oral health policy for the successful implementation of the preventive strategy to improve oral health at the population level. The population-centered virtuous cycle has traditionally turned around relatively slowly from the identification of risk factors to the implementation of successful preventive programs to improve health at the population level. An example of this slow turnaround is the identification of cigarette smoking as a risk factor for cancer and the slow implementation