title: Marketing the dental hygienist as a manager in oral health care settings.
abstract: In 1985, the ADHA, in response to the changing health care environment, identified six roles for the future of dental hygiene. The administrator/manager role, one of the six, is an expansion of dental hygiene skills to facilitate the provision of quality oral health care. Oral health care settings require personnel trained in management to accomplish practice-related goals and objectives. Dental hygiene is preparing individuals to assume managerial roles to fill this health care need. This paper discusses the skills and knowledge level required to assume managerial roles and strategies for marketing the dental hygienist as a manager.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Thomson
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D003756:Dental Hygienists; D006801:Humans; D011215:Practice Management, Dental