Geographic Access to Dental Care

HPI has developed a new approach to measuring access to dental care at the state level. This approach geo-locates all providers and uses geo-analytics to measure the proximity of providers to beneficiaries, including Medicaid providers and patients. The state-level analysis, reported in easy-to-read one-page infographics, is highly actionable for policymakers, identifying "hotspots" of insufficient access that could be addressed through targeted reforms.

Related Resources

• Geographic Access to Dental Care Varies in Missouri and Wisconsin - Article in The Journal of Public Health Dentistry describing the methodology behind this new approach to measuring access.

• Measuring What Matters - A New Way of Measuring Geographic Access to Dental Care Services - Informative webinar recording introducing this new analysis.

• A New Way to Measure Geographic Access to Dentists in North Carolina - Article in the North Carolina Medical Journal describing this new analysis applied to North Carolina.

  Click on a state in the map below to view its unique access to dental care data.