An Inner-City Community Center Has Existed in Your City for Several

An inner-city community center has existed in your city for several decades to serve the local urban community. The center has provided varied social services to the community and offered a meeting place for the community members. Twenty years ago the center added a comprehensive health center that was approved and funded as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) . The FQHC has been providing comprehensive dental services for the last 10 years. However, a staff pediatrician at the FQHC has noted that she is unable to get dental appointments for her patients who have obvious dental caries. Dental services are primarily adult focused, with less than 7% of dental patients in the pediatric age range. Concerned about this problem of limited pediatric dental service availability, the pediatrician collaborated with colleagues to develop a proposal for presentation to the governing board of the health center to expand pediatric oral health services to include screening and risk assessment followed by preventive services, oral examination, and necessary dental treatment. The board accepted the proposal and appointed a committee to explore solutions and develop a grant proposal for increased HRSA funding to accomplish this goal.
-The committee is researching workforce issues in relation to staffing the dental clinic to be able to provide cost-effective, high-quality comprehensive dental care. All of the following EXCEPT one are accurate statements regarding the oral health workforce. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

A) The oral health workforce is and will be unable to meet the present-day and future demand and need for dental care.
B) The allied oral health workforce-for example, dental hygienists and new workforce models such as mid-level providers-are central to meeting the increasing demand for dental care.
C) The current and anticipated future diversity of the oral health workforce is adequate to provide culturally competent care to our diverse population.
D) The trend in the number of dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) reflects a maldistribution and an inadequate supply of dental manpower.