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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§280k–1 Research-based Dental Caries Disease Management

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER II — GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part T — Oral Healthcare Prevention Activities › § 280k–1

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, through the CDC Director, must give demonstration grants to eligible groups to test research-based ways to manage tooth decay. Eligible groups are community dental and health organizations—like health centers, clinics and hospital programs, state or local health departments, Indian Health Service and tribal or urban Indian programs, health systems, private dental providers, health schools, and national child oral-health groups—and they must apply as the Secretary requires. Grantees must use the money to show whether the methods work. The Secretary may use the results to help plan and run an oral health education campaign and a dental health action program.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §280k–1

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall award demonstration grants to eligible entities to demonstrate the effectiveness of research-based dental caries disease management activities.
(b)Eligibility
To be eligible for a grant under this section, an entity shall—
(1)be a community-based provider of dental services (as defined by the Secretary), including a Federally-qualified health center, a clinic of a hospital owned or operated by a State (or by an instrumentality or a unit of government within a State), a State or local department of health, a dental program of the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization (as such terms are defined in section 1603 of title 25), a health system provider, a private provider of dental services, medical, dental, public health, nursing, nutrition educational institutions, or national organizations involved in improving children’s oral health; and
(2)submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
(c)Use of funds
A grantee shall use amounts received under a grant under this section to demonstrate the effectiveness of research-based dental caries disease management activities.
(d)Use of information
The Secretary shall, as practicable and appropriate, utilize information generated from grantees under this section in planning and implementing the oral health education campaign and action for dental health program under section 280k of this title.

Legislative History

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Amendments

2018—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–302 substituted “shall, as practicable and appropriate,” for “shall” and “oral health education campaign and action for dental health program” for “public education campaign”.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 280k–1

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110