Aims Increased awareness of oral health disparities in the United States has highlighted the
need to expand the workforce and access to both primary and preventive dental care …

Collaborative leadership and stakeholder engagement have created the concept of dental
therapist intraprofessional dental team members who are expanding and extending the …

The shifting landscape of the United States (US) health care system presents vast
opportunities for dental hygienists to advance their role in improving population health. In …

Purpose: A growing need for oral health care is challenged by the maldistribution of oral
health providers and lack of opportunity to access oral health care in the current system …

Purpose: Using John Kingdon's agenda-setting model, this paper explores how Minnesota
came to legislate a mid-level dental practitioner to its oral health workforce. Using a pluralist …

Purpose: Today there is a heightened awareness to address access issues and unmet oral
needs. The current private practice system of delivering oral health care is failing many …

This article seeks to chronicle how dental therapists are being used to bolster the supply of
providers for the underserved and explore their potential to diversify the field of dentistry and …

The elimination of oral health disparities in the US will require enhancing access to oral
health care services. The workshop convened in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine on the …

Direct access care provided by dental hygienists can reduce oral health disparities for the
underserved, yet legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations create complexities and limits …

Background: By midcentury, the US population will be remarkably more racially and
ethnically diverse, with a dramatic increase in the proportion of older adults. This report …