Dentists - Workplace

  • American Dental Association. (n.d.) 2002 Survey of New Dentist Financial Issues. Chicago, IL: ADA Press.

“Covering those dentists who have graduated within the last ten years, the report includes income, educational debt, and career satisfaction issues for new dentists in private practice as well as those working on dental school faculties; as government or hospital employees; in the armed forces; or in graduate school.”

  • American Dental Association. (n.d.) Studies of Dental Workforce. Chicago, IL: ADA Press.

“The workforce monograph is the end-result of a two-year collaboration process among well-known experts in the fields of dentistry and economics…. Each author (or groups of authors) presents excellent analyses within an area of expertise and interest in an effort to supply interested parties with the best available information on U.S. dentist workforce issues and policy…

  • Mertz, Elizabeth, Gena Anderson, Kevin Grumbach, and Edward O'Neil. July 2004. Evaluation of Strategies to Recruit Oral Health Care Providers to Underserved Areas of California. San Francisco, CA: Center for California Health Workforce Studies.

Available:  http://www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/pdf_files/Dental%20Strategies%20Full%20Final%20Report.pdf
“This report evaluates the impact of the multitude of programs in California to recruit and retain oral health care providers in underserved areas in California who are serving underserved populations.”

  • Walton, Surrey M., Gayle R. Byck, Judith A. Cooksey, and Linda M. Kaste. May 2004. Assessing differences in hours worked between male and female dentists. Journal of the American Dental Association 135(5): 637–45. [Online, Assessed 11/20/06.]

Available:  http://jada.ada.org/cgi/reprint/135/5/637?ck=nck
“This study examines the impact of sex, age and other demographic characteristics on dentists’ work force participation and on hours worked from 1979 through 1999.”