Help Wanted: A Policy Maker’s Guide to New Dental Providers

Help Wanted: A Policy Maker’s Guide to New Dental Providers reviews three proposed providers—dental therapist, community dental health coordinator and advanced dental hygiene practitioner—along with implementation steps for state policy makers to consider toward improving oral health access for underserved communities.

After a comprehensive literature review and interviews with leading experts in several states, this sixty-page report was published by the Pew Center on the States and the National Academy for State Health Policy with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.