• Michael D Colvard, Benjamin J Vesper, Linda M Kaste, Jeremy L Hirst, David E Peters, James James, Rodrigo Villalobos, and E John Wipfler.
• Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Dental Medicine Responder Training Office, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 801 South Paulina Street (MC 838), Chicago, IL 60612-7213, USA. Electronic address: colvard@uic.edu.
• Dent. Clin. North Am. 2016 Oct 1; 60 (4): 907-20.

AbstractDisaster and pandemic response events require an interprofessional team of health care responders to organize and work together in high-pressure, time-critical situations. Civilian oral health care professionals have traditionally been limited to forensic identification of human remains. However, after the bombing of the Twin Towers in New York, federal agencies realized that dentists can play significant roles in disaster and immunization response, especially on interprofessional responder teams. Several states have begun to incorporate dentists into the first responder community. This article discusses the roles of dental responders and highlights legislative advancements and advocacy efforts supporting the dental responder.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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