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This compendium summarizes best practices in innovative oral health service delivery programs drawn from over 40 case studies conducted by the OHWRC in recent years. Organizations included were early initiators of service integration, mobile/portable dentistry, and/or teledentistry.

This report highlights unique access barriers for specific high-need children (racial/ethnic minorities, low-income parents, uninsured families, Medicaid beneficiaries, rural individuals) or geographic regions.

This report evaluates the differences by gender of dental professionals' practice characteristics including employment status, working hours, and practice location.

This article discusses an infographic developed by the Oral Health Workforce Research Center that visually depicts state-level variation in scope of practice for dental hygienists to help better inform policy makers and other oral health stakeholders.

This report describes benchmark strategies used by safety net provider organizations to integrate health services delivery for patients including screening for and identifying medical, dental, and mental health conditions during health care encounters and directing referrals to appropriate clinical providers.