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Mid-Level Dental Providers: Expanding Care to Every Community
Mid-level providers are critical to expanding access to dental care. Working with dentists and hygienists they help provide preventive and routine dental services, oral health education and a dental home in underserved communities.
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Building a Better Future: Working with Communities to Improve Oral Health
From 1930 when rural children in Michigan first received dental care at school as a result of MCHP to 2011 with dental therapists in Alaska, innovative approaches for improving dental health are rooted in partnership with communities.
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Dental Therapists: Expanding Care to Every Community
Without dental care, many people live in pain, miss school or work, and in extreme cases, develop life-threatening infections. This all could be prevented if we improved access to routine dental care.
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A review of the global literature on dental therapists
An extensive review of the literature documenting care provided by dental therapists and clinical outcomes worldwide indicates that they offer safe, effective dental care to children.
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Providing evidence for expanding the dental care workforce – Overview
A review of more than 1,100 documents on dental care provided all over the world indicates that mid-level providers such as dental therapists could greatly expand access to care, especially for children.
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A review of the global literature on dental therapists – Executive Summary
This executive summary documents evidence that dental therapists can effectively expand access to dental care, especially for children, and is technically competent, safe and effective.
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Providing evidence for expanding the dental care workforce
The report reviews the history and practice of dental therapists in 54 countries ranging from the United States to Malaysia. According to the report, dental therapists provide technically competent, safe and effective care, while also improving access to care.
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Oral Health Quality Improvement in the Age of Accountability
A new report funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the DentaQuest Institute outlines an approach to expand the oral health quality improvement effort through data collection, accountability and new ways of delivering oral health care.
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Executive Summary: Oral Health Quality Improvement in the Era of Accountability
This is an executive summary of the report, Oral Health Quality Improvement in the Era of Accountability.
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An Assessment of Oral Health on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
An assessment of the oral health of 292 Oglala Lakota residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota looks at dental issues, periodontal disease, oral lesions and need for dental care.
