Dental Benefits Improve Access to Oral Care
Dental coverage provides a means to obtain oral care, which is an important component of overall health. This article discusses the common forms of dental health plans, the services usually…
Social Work in Dentistry: The CARES Model for Improving Patient Retention and Access to Care
Social work programs in dental schools and dental clinics have been operated successfully since the 1940s, and have been documented as contributing to patients’ access to care and to dental…
Using Teledentistry to Improve Access to Dental Care for the Underserved
Teledentistry is an exciting new area of dentistry that fuses electronic health records, telecommunications technology, digital imaging, and the Internet to link health providers in rural or remote communities. For…
Innovations to Improve Oral Health Care Access
Improving access to oral health care requires an understanding of the social, cultural, political, financial, and manpower factors that influence access. Armed with this knowledge, individuals and organizations desiring to…
Managing Clinical Risk: Right Person, Right Care, Right Time
Dentists and the dental health care industry have a renewed interest in clinical risk assessment, because they offer the potential to identify a patient’s clinical needs for oral health care…
An Introduction to Oral Health Care Reform
Oral health care reform is made up of several components, but access to care is central. Health care reform will occur in some fashion at some point, and how it…
Private Sector Response to Improving Oral Health Care Access
Despite vast improvements in the oral health status of the United States population over the past 50 years, disparities in oral health status continue, with certain segments of the population…
Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Children by Expanding the Dental Workforce to Include Dental Therapists
This article documents the disparities in oral health among children, identifies barriers to access to care for children, describes the use of dental therapists internationally to improve access to care…
The Role of Non-Dental Health Professionals in Providing Access to Dental Care for Low-Income and Minority Patients
The disadvantaged suffer disproportionately from dental problems. These persons are more likely to have untreated oral health problems and associated pain, and also are more likely to forego dental treatment…
Dental Workforce
The dental workforce refers to the number, distribution, and characteristics of dentists, dental auxiliaries, and other support staff involved in the provision of oral health care. This article reviews the…
