There has never been a time when public health professionals, dental researchers, and oral health care providers so often came across the expression social determinants of health. From increasing numbers of scientific articles to conferences organized by associations, social determinants of health seem to be everywhere but especially at the top of research priority lists and public policy agendas. The wide acceptance of the expression could lead one to believe that there is consensus about the way social determinants of oral health and oral health inequities are understood and tackled.