Dental Provider Resources

Providing dental care to underserved populations can be a real challenge. From recruitment to funding, handling “no shows” to dealing with Medicaid, it can be difficult to keep a program running successfully.

Sometimes the best way to learn how to handle a situation is to hear from someone else who’s tackled it. The resources available through the VHCF website, roundtables and workshops help both new and established dental providers achieve their goals and bring primary dental care to Virginians.

Tooth Talk can help; it connects Virginia’s dental providers who care for uninsured children and adults:

  • Tooth Talk is a community forum for dental safety net providers — a mechanism for them to learn about new resources and grants, to pose and answer questions about providing dental care to the uninsured, and keep up-to-date on important issues.  The core of this community forum is a listserv that enables VHCF’s dental opportunities coordinator to connect all participants and share information.
  • Tooth Talk also is the name of VHCF’s twice yearly dental roundtable discussions for Virginia’s dental safety net providers.  These roundtables are unparalleled opportunities for providers to learn from each other.  Each roundtable focuses on a key issue facing dental safety net providers today.

To sign-up for the Tooth Talk community forum (and listserv) or to find out more about Tooth Talk roundtables, contact VHCF’s Dental Opportunities Coordinator at 804/828-5804 (julie@vhcf.org).

VHCF also provides in-depth resources for dental providers statewide, including:

Follow the links above to get more information.  Contact VHCF’s dental opportunities coordinator at (804) 828-5804 (julie@vhcf.org)  if you have additional resources you would like included.