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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.
November 19, 2012 | Story
The Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry expanded community-based education and increased the number of patients who received dental care as a Round 2 participant in RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program.
November 19, 2012 | Story
As a Round 2 participant in RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program, Baylor College of Dentistry at Texas A&M Health Science Center expanded its Bridge to Dentistry program for underrepresented minority and low-income students.
November 19, 2012 | Program Result
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.
August 22, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
RWJF and The Alliance for Health Reform sponsored a briefing to discuss oral health care in the United States, particularly for children and other vulnerable populations.
August 13, 2012 | Story
Clinical Director James R. Hosmer, DMD, explains how the program dramatically improves the oral health of children in Rhode Island.
July 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Affordable Care Act will allow more Americans to access dental health services, former Surgeon General and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars almnus David Satcher, MD, PhD, said recently at forum on unmet oral health needs, but the ...
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Low-income children and adolescents continue to bear a heavy burden of untreated pain and complications from dental disease.