University of Maryland School of Dentistry, 650 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-1586, USA.
Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, 110 Bergen Street, Room B-828, Newark, NJ 07101, USA.
Dent Clin North Am. 2025 Jan;69(1):69-82. doi: 10.1016/j.cden.2024.08.003. Epub 2024 Oct 25.
Dentistry has faced, and continues to face, challenges in expanding its ranks to include diverse, especially minoritized, people. American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic, and Black representation, for example, has not grown significantly in dentistry. Although dental schools have an accreditation standard to be humanistic environments, it is not clear that dental schools have climates that are functionally inclusive of minoritized people-whether for patients, the student body, staff members, faculty members or leadership. For the profession to advance oral health equity, intentional efforts are needed in education and across the full dental workforce.
牙科在扩大其队伍以吸纳更多不同背景的人，尤其是少数族裔方面，一直面临并将继续面临挑战。例如，美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民、西班牙裔和非裔美国人在牙科领域的代表性并没有显著增加。尽管牙科学校有一个以人文环境为标准的认证，但目前还不清楚牙科学校是否具有包容少数族裔人群的功能氛围——无论是针对患者、学生群体、工作人员、教职员工还是领导层。为了促进口腔健康公平，需要在教育和整个牙科劳动力中做出有针对性的努力。
