September 2003

The Connecticut Health Foundation vigorously supports the goal of improving equity in access to dental care. As part of a multi-stage strategy to improve access, the Foundation commissioned the Children’s Dental Health Project (CDHP) to investigate strategies to improve access to dental services for underserved populations.

One such strategy of wide interest and potential application involves establishing contractual arrangements between Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and "FQHC Look-alikes" and private-practice dentists for the purpose of providing dental services to health center patients, either in the dentists' private offices or in designated areas within health center facilities.

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