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Elizabeth Mertz, PhD
Associate professor, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Services, School of Dentistry, and the Healthforce Center, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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Topics: COVID-19, Education and Training, Oral Health
This report summarizes the immediate and longer-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on 4 domains of the oral health care system: care delivery, regulation, education, and finance.
Topics: Education and Training, Oral Health
This article examines the individual, educational, community, and policy factors that predict whether postgraduate dental (PGD)-trained dentists serve Medicaid children, accept new Medicaid patients, or work in an FQHC.
Topics: Education and Training, Oral Health
This article examines the individual, institutional, and policy factors that predict the pursuit of postgraduate dental (PGD) training.
Topics: Oral Health, Policy
This article assesses the changes in dental care use in Minnesota after the implementation of the policy to authorize dental therapists in 2009.
