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title: "Girl Power: How Girlosity Can Change Healthcare"
description: The focus on girls and their health, nutrition, social, and mental is the answer to future health care. Let’s tour why that’s so and what dentistry can and should do about it. The oral-systemic link is easy to manipulate and has less to do with a toothbrush or scaler than you think.
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# [Girl Power: How Girlosity Can Change Healthcare](https://www.aaosh.org/core-curriculum-ce/girlosity-can-change-healthcare)

 Written by [Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH](https://www.aaosh.org/core-curriculum-ce/author/shirley-gutkowski-rdh-bsdh) | Nov 10, 2022 8:15:30 PM

Presented by: Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH

Original Publication Date: Friday, April 24, 2020

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**Course Description:**

The focus on girls and their health, nutrition, social, and mental is the answer to future health care. Let’s tour why that’s so and what dentistry can and should do about it. The oral-systemic link is easy to manipulate and has less to do with a toothbrush or scaler than you think.

**Learning Objectives:**

- Classify dental interventions’ impact on DNA.
- Explain why it’s essential to look at girls as exceptional cases for future global health.

**Speaker Bio:**

Shirley Gutkowski is the Primary Practitioner at Primal Air, LLC, Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy and Breathing Retraining. She is a popular international speaker and author of hundreds of feature and peer-reviewed articles in consumer, medical, and dental publications.

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