Research to assist in oral health workforce planning
OHWRC is engaged in a number of research projects aimed to assess the current oral health workforce and the delivery of oral health services in the US, and to assist federal and state policy makers in future oral health workforce planning.
Current research projects include:
- A Comparative Study of Dental Providers’ Prescriptive Patterns of Opioids Analgesics
- Curricular Content Used by Dental Schools to Teach Recognition and Management of Substance Use Disorders
- A Study of the Alignment of Rural Workforce Policy with Access to Oral Health Services in Rural Communities
- National Practice Patterns and Trends in Post-graduate Trained Dentists
- Evaluating the Impact of Personal Characteristics of Dentists on Workforce Participation
- A Study of the Productivity and Effectiveness of Dental Therapists in a Large Dental Organization
- Follow-up Study on Consumer Barriers to Oral Health
- The Changing Role of Post-Baccalaureate Programs in the Pipeline to Dental Education