Dental Provider Resources
Providing dental care to underserved populations can be a real challenge. From recruitment to funding to increasing kept appointment rates, 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 has 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 is another invaluable resource. It connects Virginia’s dental safety net providers and practices via two avenues:
- The Tooth Talk Listserv is an online 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 to keep up-to-date on important issues.
- 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.
Click on the button below to sign-up for the Tooth Talk Listserv or to find out more about Tooth Talk roundtables please contact Tara Wiley, Health Access Program Officer, at (804) 525-1483.
VHCF also shares in-depth resources for dental providers statewide, including:
- Listing of Localities Designated as Dental Professional Shortage Areas (DPSAs) (March 2023)
- Listing of Localities Designated as Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) (March 2023)
- Tools and Information for Providers Regarding Medicaid Adult Dental Benefit (Virginia Health Catalyst)
- Practicing Dentistry during COVID-19 (Virginia Health Catalyst)
- Patterson Dental Discounts
- Trauma Informed Care in Dentistry: Why It Matters & How to Get Started
- Oral Health Integration Toolkit (Virginia Health Catalyst)
- Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual (Safety Net Solutions)
- Brushing Up – Tooth Talk for Kids
- Discussion Lists and Groups
- Using Portable Dental Equipment to Provide Dental Care to Schools
- MOM Projects
Contact VHCF if you have additional resources you would like included.
Last Updated on March 3, 2023