PURPOSE Peer-reviewed professional publications were examined for pertinent information associated with faculty shortages in the dental professions. The review found 6 suggested causes, including inadequate compensation, lack of diversity amongst faculty, inadequate mentoring for new faculty, lack of modeling to prospective dental hygiene educators, little awareness of faculty shortages and lac...

In 2005, Public Act No. 161 (PA 161) was passed in Michigan, allowing dental hygienists to practice in approved public dental prevention programs to provide services for underserved populations while utilizing a collaborative agreement with a supervising dentist. The aims of this study were to assess how well dental and dental hygiene students and faculty members and practicing dental hygienist...

(Ex. Service Senior Resident, Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, IMS, Banaras Hindu University) (Professor & Dean, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, IMS, Banaras Hindu University) 3 (Associate Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, IMS, Banaras Hindu University) (Assistant Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty...

Tzvetelina Gueorgieva1, Maria Dencheva2, Julia Kamenoff3, Vasil Kalchinov1, Margarita Vasileva4 1) Department of Conservative dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, 2) Department of Imaging and oral diagnosis, Faculty of Dental Medicine, 3) Department of Prosthetic dental medicine, Faculty of Dental Medicine, 4) Student in Faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University Sofia, Bulgaria Journal o...

1 DDS, Resident Fellow in Removable Partial Dentures, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Monastir, Tunisia. 2 DDS, Professor in Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Monastir, Tunisia. 3 DDS, Assistant Professor in Removable Partial Dentures, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Monastir, Tunisia. 4 DDS, Professor in Removable Partial Dentures, Faculty ...

The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Survey of Dental School Faculty is conducted annually to provide an overview of the hiring and retention activity of U.S. dental school faculty. The survey collects data on the dental faculty workforce, including vacant budgeted positions by appointment and discipline, number of new and lost positions, sources of new hires, and reasons for facult...

A faculty of sufficient size and possessing the appropriate skills is critical to dental education. Faculty shortages have been identified, but little has been written about the skills and abilities necessary for dental faculty to be effective. This project identified consensus lists of competencies in the areas of teaching and research. A panel of dental education experts used a web-based Delp...

The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry launched its new dental therapy program in September 2009 after the Minnesota state legislature had authorized the training and practice of a dental therapist in May of the same year. The creation of this mid-level dental provider is seen as a workforce solution to help address the problem of access to dental care experienced by some members of ou...

Author details Department of Odontology and Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Tirgu-Mures, Tirgu Mureș, Romania. Department of Tooth Morphology and Dental Materials, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Tirgu-Mures, Tirgu Mureș, Romania. Department of Morphopatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy...

The 1995 Institute of Medicine study of the future of dental education, Dental Education at the Crossroads: Challenges and Change, recommended that dental schools increase the use of nontenure-track positions in their employment of faculty. As part of a larger investigation of faculty appointment processes in U.S. dental schools, dental deans were queried about institutional policies governing ...