ADA.org: Future of Dentistry Full Report

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY out dental prepayment, the entire billing for dental services is paid by the patient or some designated perso ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Brown LJ, Wall TP, Lazar V. Trends in untreated caries in per- manent teeth of children 6 to 18 years old. J ...

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78 FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Licensure and Regulation of Dental Professionals CHAPTER 5 Dentistry is a highly respected profession for ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY A license to practice dentistry is a privilege grant- ed by individual state and district governments. Throug ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Dental boards in a number of states are working to address concerns raised by state medical boards about oral ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Like dental assisting, dental laboratory technolo- gy has voluntary national certification programs. The ADA ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY tions to senior dental and dental hygiene students prior to graduation. This allows the candidate to utilize ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY United States and Puerto Rico, because there is an accreditation agreement between the two accredit- ing agen ...

Licensure and regulation are intended to protect the public safety and assure the provision of quality dental services. Regulati ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY service regulations, competency examinations and workplace regulation may be that the nature of the requireme ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Public policy as it is expressed in legislation and regulation may have significant impact on the den- tal pr ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY tions in measuring the candidate's clinical skills and abilities to solve high-level problems. COMPETENCY Den ...

88 FUTURE OFDENTISTRY Dental Education CHAPTER 6 The generation of new knowledge through research and scholarship, and the trans ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY THE DENTAL SCHOOL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO SOCIETY The 54 dental schools in the United States are national resourc ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY dental schools, and another closed in 1998. Critical review of their dental programs will almost certainly be ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY the highest cost, professional training program. There is considerable variation in the per student cost of d ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY income is substantial, and is reported as a school revenue source by 42 institutions. For all dental schools ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY States were more than $1.34 billion in 1998. Comparing this amount with the $1.41 billion aggregate revenue 1 ...

FUTURE OFDENTISTRY DENTAL SCHOOL APPLICANTS The Applicant Pool Like other professions, dentistry goes through cycles during whic ...