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improve the oral health status
of all North Carolinians

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NCOHC seeks to resolve consumer-level and systemic barriers to good oral health and accelerate the implementation of policies that reduce oral health disparities. Our approach, sustained in evidence-based strategies, places community at the center of our change agenda.

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NCOHC’s mission is to improve the overall health and well-being of all North Carolinians by ensuring everyone can access quality oral health care through collaborative partnerships, advocacy, and education.

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Expanded Functions Dental Assistants (EFDAs): Building a Stronger Dental Workforce for North Carolina

Our Workforce Blog Series explores multiple areas that impact North Carolina’s oral health ecosystem, from programs that influence dentists to practice in rural communities to the implementation or expansion of dental hygiene and dental assistant programs at community...

North Carolina Dental Schools: Producing the Next Leaders Addressing Oral Health

Our April 2026 post, “Quantifying North Carolina’s Dental Workforce Shortage”, discusses how NCOHC is exploring the oral health workforce and attempted to digest the impact of workforce shortage and how improvements can be made to increase North Carolina’s dental...

From Data to Action: 5 Steps to Bridge North Carolina’s Dental Divide

In our previous post, we explored the "dental divide" currently splitting North Carolina. While the state’s total number of dentists has doubled since 2000, half of those providers are concentrated in just six urban counties. The remaining 94...