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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."
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 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.
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 ...