This flyer can be shared with individuals that are interested in dental assistant careers in the dental safety-net.

This factsheet describes common loan repayment options for dental professionals. Published in August 2024.

This publication summarizes the findings of NNOHA's 2023 Workforce Survey. The survey included over 800 responses from health center dental professionals. This publication describes factors that contribute to job satisfaction and current salary trends (2023).

This flyer can be shared with students and residents as a tool for recruitment to work in the dental safety-net.

This new publication describes strategies for community health centers to implement their dental assistant training programs. These programs can help enhance dental assistant recruitment and retention. They can also build community capacity by increasing the dental assistant workforce.

The NNOHA Job Bank is an excellent resource to recruit dental providers and team members. Job postings are publicized on the NNOHA website and in the bi-weekly NNOHA Newsletters.

Salud Family Health Centers in Colorado created multiple career ladders for their team. This presentation includes descriptions of their ladders and curriculum. The document includes career ladders for dental assistants, pharmacy technicians, dental clinic coordinators, customer service associates, and more.

Disclaimer: These materials were provided by Salud Family Health Center. NNOHA does not make any claims or endorsements about these materials.

This publication summarizes the findings of the NNOHA 2021 Workforce Survey. The purpose of the survey was to provide information and analysis on dental team member salaries, satisfaction, and recruitment and retention strategies in health centers throughout the country.

National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA) developed and administered a survey in July 2018 of Health Center oral health providers and executive leadership. The purpose of this survey was to provide information and analysis on oral health provider salaries, oral health provider satisfaction, and recruitment and retention strategies at Health Centers throughout the country.  A similar survey was released in 2009 and 2013. The results of the survey are in this document. The intent of this document is to be used by Health Centers to improve their ability to recruit and retain oral health providers and inform Health Centers of the current workforce trends.

As part of a Cooperative Agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Network for Oral Health Access worked with Baylor College of Dentistry in 2013 to develop and administer a survey of Health Center oral health providers and executive directors. The purpose of the survey was to provide information and analysis on oral health provider salaries, oral health provider satisfaction, and recruitment and retention strategies at Health Centers throughout the country. This paper summarizes and interprets the results of the national survey, updating and expanding upon information provided in the earlier 2009 survey and paper conducted by NNOHA.

Health Centers nationwide face challenges in recruiting and retaining health providers, including dentists and dental hygienists. For this reason, Health Centers are eager to find ways to improve oral health providers’ job satisfaction, such as attracting candidates who are likely to remain at Health Centers, offering competitive salaries and benefits, and providing satisfying work environments. We hope that this paper will be of use to Health Centers that are seeking to improve their ability to recruit and retain oral health providers.

These forms, developed by Janet Bozzone, DMD, MPH, are used to demonstrate the total salary of employees including the monetary amount of their benefits. To use the tool, input the amounts in the red areas. The worksheet will auto-calculate the rest.

Contracting is one of the service delivery methods that may be used  to provide and/or increase access to dental care for health center  service area populations.

The  checklist is to assist health centers in determining if contracting is  an appropriate strategy for providing dental services and for planning  the implementation of contracting for dental services.

The implementation strategies document  includes information NNOHA obtained through interviews conducted with  health centers that are sustainably contracting for dental services. We  have gathered promising practices from these organizations to assist  health centers, both with and without on-site dental clinics, to  implement contracting for dental services to increase access to dental  care.

The Los Angeles Christian Health Center’s dental clinic was started by volunteer dentists. This promising practice outlines the strategies that were implemented to perpetuate and expand volunteers’ capabilities in the face of cutbacks to the budget for staff dentists.

The Dental Assistant National Board and DALE Foundation developed resources to analyze the financial value of dental assistants. This webpage also includes a calculator to determine the cost of turnover for dental assistants.

This short document compiles recruitment and retention tips for programs attempting to build a strong, high-quality, dental workforce.

This resource outlines FAQs related to dental careers at Health Centers.

Dr. Eric Elmquist of NorthLakes Community Clinic (WI) developed this resource to assist community health centers with employee interviews. The publication includes some helpful hints for conducting interviews.

This resource, created in partnership with the American Dental Hygiene Association, outlines the various functions and roles that dental hygienists can play in Community Health Centers.

This promising practice provides ideas that have been developed to highlight your Health Center and community when recruiting potential dental providers.

This chapter provides helpful tools and resources for tackling the  issues related to workforce in Health Center oral health programs. 

This resource was supported by NNOHA's HRSA National Training and Technical Assistance Partnership.

NNOHA developed an orientation narrative template for dental students who attend a service learning program through a health center as part of their orientation process.