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The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) believes that a comprehensive dental benefit should be part of any comprehensive public or private health care coverage plan and should be available to every person. | Oct. 12, 2021
In the face of surging infections by the delta variant, ADEA is now calling on its member institutions and programs to require COVID-19 vaccinations for their faculty, staff, students and residents. | Sept. 13, 2021
Both genders overestimate their performance compared to scores given by faculty, and male dental students overestimate their performance more significantly than females, according to a study published in the Journal of Dental Education (JDE). | Sept. 3, 2021
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is among more than two dozen higher education organizations that have signed onto a joint statement decrying assorted state measures to bar COVID-19 vaccination requirements, surveillance testing and/or mitigation strategies such as masking. | Aug. 16, 2021
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) urges its member institutions and programs to advise and strongly encourage their faculty, staff, students and residents to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. | July 28, 2021
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is launching a momentous dental education-wide climate assessment survey that will collect baseline data on diversity, equity and inclusion at U.S. and Canadian dental schools and allied dental programs. | July 15, 2021
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is hailing the introduction of a bill that would permanently allow qualified health professions students to administer vaccines during federally declared public health emergencies. | June 17, 2021
U.S. dental schools have failed to make significant inroads in attracting and enrolling Black students over the past two decades, a fact that may be contributing to persistent oral health disparities among Black Americans, according to an article published in the Journal of Dental Education (JDE). | April 20, 2021
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) condemns all forms of violence, discrimination, racism, harassment and xenophobia. | March 19, 2021
The Biden administration's decision to allow dentists and qualified dental students to administer the COVID-19 vaccine is a welcome and important step in winning the fight against the deadly pandemic, according to the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). | March 12, 2021
Oral health is an essential component of overall health, but that outlook is not widely put into practice, according to the Chair of the Board of Directors for the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), who says the paradox diminishes the influence of oral health professionals in the health care community. | March 4, 2021
Oral health professionals have a crucial but not fully realized role to play in advancing and improving the overall health of the general population, according to an essay published in the Journal of Dental Education. | Jan. 21, 2021
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA), Henry Schein, Inc. and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have joined forces for an initiative that will provide dental schools and allied dental education programs with KN95 masks to be used for patient care. | Oct. 15, 2020
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is dedicated to fostering a welcoming, diverse, inclusive and humanistic environment in every area of dental education—classrooms, clinics, laboratories, meeting/collaboration spaces, research, administrative offices and in our communities. | Sept. 25, 2020
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is calling for members of the dental health care team, including dental and dental allied students providing patient care, to be among those health care workers to first receive any vaccine developed for COVID-19. | Sept. 8, 2020
Noting that oral health is crucial to overall health care, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) says it is important that routine oral health care is allowed to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic—provided that specific safety protocols are followed, including the use of PPE. | Aug. 14, 2020
Marsha A. Pyle, D.D.S., M.Ed., a longtime leader in academic dentistry, has been named as the next Senior Scholar in Residence for the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). | Aug. 12, 2020
Dental students in California experience depressive symptoms at a rate similar to those of medical students and higher than the general population. | July 23, 2020
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) strongly condemns racism, discrimination, prejudice and injustice of any kind within dental education. | June 25, 2020
The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) has released a toolkit aimed at bolstering the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty, including historically underrepresented racial, ethnic and marginalized groups. | June 18, 2020
ADEA President and CEO Karen P. West, D.M.D., M.P.H., issued the following statement in response to the recent tragedies and protests in the United States. | June 2, 2020
Dr. Henry Gremillion, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry and Former ADEA Board Chair, Dies | May 18, 2020