{"id":9013,"date":"2024-03-04T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2024-03-04T17:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:10:58","slug":"dental-care-is-in-crisis-but-its-also-a-moment-of-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2024\/03\/04\/dental-care-is-in-crisis-but-its-also-a-moment-of-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental care is in crisis. But it\u2019s also a moment of opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9015\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-141972024-768x432-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-141972024-768x432-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-141972024-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Many dental professionals left the workforce during the last few years, citing the pandemic as the impetus for leaving. However, other areas of the health care sector have seen a labor rebound while employment at dental offices remains down \u2014 at all levels of the field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/02\/12\/dental-labor-crisis-hygienists-dentists-assistants-staffing-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many dental professionals left the workforce during the last few years, citing the pandemic as the impetus for leaving. However, other areas of the health care sector have seen a labor rebound while employment at dental offices remains down \u2014 at all levels of the field. Read the full article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wohw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9016,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions\/9016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}