Mind & Mouth Matters
Your mental health and your oral health are more connected than you might think.
Stress, anxiety, and emotions can all affect the way you care for your smile, and your smile can influence how you feel about yourself.
Mind & Mouth Matters is a safe space to learn about the mind and mouth connection.
Here, you’ll find tips, answers, and tools that remind you, it’s never too late to start taking care of both.
Mind & Mouth Connection
Learn more about how your mental health and your oral health are connected.
Dentistry as a Career
Discover pathways to becoming a dentist or dental hygienist so you can help improve oral and mental health for future generations.
FAQs & Tips
Explore answers to questions about oral and mental health, and ways you can improve both.
Connected Resources
Go further on your oral and mental health journey with resources and activities from other trusted sources.
Mind and Mouth Matters has been developed as part of a Maryland Coalition for Allied Dental Education (MCADE) student engagement project by dental hygiene students from the Community College of Baltimore County.
If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, help is always available.
Call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
hours
Tuesday - Friday: 10am to 4pm
Address
31 S. Greene St. Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone
410-706-0600
The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry is an auxiliary enterprise of the University of Maryland, School of Dentistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
