Jane Koppelman, MPA, is the research director for the dental campaign at The Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, DC. Learn more at: pewtrusts.org/dental. She is also a member of the Perspectives on the Midlevel Practitioner’s Editorial Advisory Board.
As more states strengthen and modernize their oral health delivery systems via dental therapy, schools now have an important resource to develop high-quality training programs to educate this emerging workforce.