Dental recruitment company DirectDental is partnering with the Harbor Dental Society to help dental practices in California fill vacant roles.

A Texas dentist has begun offering dental assisting classes at his practice to help meet the high demand for dental assistants in the area.

Residents in Humboldt County, Calif., are struggling to find dental care amid a dental workforce shortage hitting the area, ABC affiliate KRCR reported May 5. 

New York has the lowest job resignation rate in the country, according to a survey from WalletHub.

A sense of unappreciation, COVID-19 and a lack of training programs are all contributing factors to the ongoing shortage of dental hygienists in the industry, according to William Simon, DMD.

A nonprofit dental clinic in Maine and the adult education department of the local school district are partnering on a new dental assistant program to alleviate the local workforce shortage, Bangor Daily News reported May 1. 

The COVID-19 pandemic saw the beginning of the Great Resignation, with dental hygienists representing one of the largest exoduses in the dental industry. But even as the pandemic wanes, few hygienists have returned to the field. 

Dentists, dental assistants and dental hygienist jobs are expected to grow by 71,100 through 2030, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Massachusetts had the highest employment and concentration of jobs for oral surgeons in 2021, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Maryland had the highest number of employed orthodontists and concentration of jobs in 2021, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

California had the highest number of employed dentists in 2021, while Virginia had the highest concentration of dentist jobs, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

California had the highest number of employed dental hygienists in 2021, while Idaho had the highest concentration of hygienists per 1,000 jobs, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

From which roles are most in demand to which specialties have grown in the last 20 years, here are seven dental staffing stats to know:

Here are five dental scholarships from the last four months totaling $1,592,500:

The James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston is launching a dentistry fellowship after receiving a grant from the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation.

From new dental schools to university leadership moves, here are 10 essential updates for dental educators:

Dental hygienists and assistants continued to be the most recruited roles for dental practices in March, according to a recent poll from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute. 

Batesville, Ark.-based Lyon College is planning to create a new dental school in Little Rock, Ark., ABC affiliate KATV reported April 12.

Workforce recovery in the dental industry is slow despite COVID-19 cases and restrictions improving, according to new data from the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute. 

2021 – The Great Resignation + The Great Reshuffle In 2021, both terms came to frequent use. They were phrases we hadn’t heard before. What was this about? Well, after a long 2020 with the pandemic, we expected people to start reentering the workforce and coming back to a full work schedule (kind of how were in 2019). Here’s what happened: people did return to the workforce, but they returned with a new set of expectations. What does that mean? Well, they knew that they had choices, and they were going to work where they wanted, how they wanted and on their own timeframe.