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RWJF conducted the Systematic Screening and Assessment of Workforce Innovations in the Provision of Preventive Oral Health Services to identify the models that show promise in increasing access to oral health services.
September 23, 2013 | Story
Reviews spotlight prevention and access models at clinical and community settings.
September 19, 2013 | Report
Seven oral health programs that provide preventive oral health care to young children (<5 years old) in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, Early Head Start, and primary care settings are examined here.
August 27, 2013 | Program Results Report
RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
July 8, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a budget that restores virtually all dental benefits to the 3 million low-income Californians who qualify for Adult Denti-Cal.
May 22, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A research brief finds that an increasing number of Americans visited emergency departments for dental-related care between 2000 and 2010, as a percentage of total dental visits.
May 17, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Complaints about low numbers of qualified applicants are overstated. There is a large pool of qualified and talented students of diverse backgrounds who have not been recruited by dental schools or made aware of career opportunities in dentistry.
May 2, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Raised in a small town in Alabama, SMDEP alumna Monique Trice writes about why her community's geographic makeup has "set the stage for an oral health care crisis."
April 22, 2013 | Story
Forgetting your dental checkup? It may have something to do with your community.
February 13, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
The oral health system's inability to accurately measure where we are and chart a course forward has tremendous human and economic consequences, Paul Glassman writes.