---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285h"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285h"
heading: "Purpose of Institute"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285h"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 8 — national institute of dental research"
---

# §285h. Purpose of Institute


The general purpose of the National Institute of Dental Research is the conduct and support of research, training, health information dissemination, and other [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) with respect to the cause, prevention, and methods of diagnosis and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of dental and oral diseases and conditions.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 453, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 856.)