title: The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine's approach to dental workforce education and reaching underserved areas.
abstract: Access to preventive and oral health care services in many areas of our state remains problematic. This paper discusses oral health needs of North Carolinians and how a new model of dental education at East Carolina University addresses these issues by providing care where it is most needed.
authors.affiliation: School of Dental Medicine, East Carolina University, 600 Moye Blvd, Greenville, NC 27834, USA. chadwickg@ecu.edu
authors.forename: D Gregory
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Chadwick
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D003729:Dental Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003815:Dentists / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D009657:North Carolina; D012575:Schools, Dental