Addressing dental workforce challenges at the state level through financial incentives, educational innovation, and teledentistry initiatives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To address access to dental care and oral health inequity issues comprehensively this project aimed to 1) develop, test and demonstrate a community-based recruitment of oral health workforce capacity in severely underserved areas of Oregon, 2) develop a retention toolkit with the potential to increase the longevity of providers in Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (DHPSAs), 3) expand the pipeline of oral health professionals willing to practice in rural underserved counties of Oregon through experiential learning, and 4) demonstrate that a teledentistry model would be applicable in severely underserved areas.

Methods

Administrative changes to state loan repayment initiatives were used to leverage recruitment efforts of dental workforce to DHPSAs. Senior de

SUBMITTER: Schwarz E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11895126 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature