Staffing Issues

The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously voted to advance the Action for Dental Health Act of 2023 to the House floor for consideration. 

Dental practitioners have the most advertised vacancies compared to other dental roles as of June, according to research from job search engine Adzuna.

Approximately one-third (31.4 percent) of dental hygienists and 33.7 percent of dental assistants are expecting to retire within the next five years, according to dental workforce shortage research from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute. 

Malta, Ill.-based Kishwaukee College is offering a 12-week dental assistant program.

More than 80 percent of dental practice owners have given dental assistants and dental hygienists on their staff a raise in the past year, according to a poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.

Several dental and medical organizations urged Congress to address workforce issues in the healthcare industry.

Dental practices are struggling to recruit dental hygienists, dental assistants, dentists and administrative staff, with each role being mostly "extremely" or "very" challenging to recruit, according to a poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.

Online recruitment websites, word of mouth and recruiting from local dental hygiene or assistant programs are the three methods dental practice owners use the most to recruit staff, according to a recent poll by the American Dental Association Health Policy…

There were more than 120,000 general dentists in the U.S. in 2022, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Dental lab techs had the highest share of remote employees, The New York Times reported June 26.