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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."
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.
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.
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 ...
April 10, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Former Health & Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, MD, penned an op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times making the case for devising more effective ways to deliver dental care to poor or rural communities across the nation. The Secretary notes th ...
March 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Over the past two months, oral health has received a lot of press. I mentioned the Pew report above. A recent New York Times article pointed out the challenges for some kids. The NBC Nightly News picked up on the story. Water fluoridation, one of th ...
February 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
For instance, there are programs to educate pediatric physicians to apply fluoride varnishes, and for nurse practitioners to do oral exams and provide preventive services for young children during check-ups. HCB: What else did the Initiative include ...
August 15, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The process we followed was a strict, evidence based, well-informed one that included five committee meetings, one public workshop with 19 speakers, three commissioned papers, 15 external reviewers and many, many internal reviews, conversations, rew ...