Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me

Peggy Liu, associate professor in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, and Jacqueline Burgette, assistant professor in the School of Dental Medicine, have combined business acumen and marketing with pediatric dentistry. Together, they have created the Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me Family Activity Box to help children prevent tooth decay, the most common chronic disease of childhood.

An extensive five-year study with 126 Pittsburgh and West Virginia mothers led to development of this oral health promotion box intended to serve as a fun, family-based, community-engaged way of providing child oral health education and resources to families. Burgette has just been named a White House Fellow for the class of 2022-23; the first dentist ever selected.