The inability of oral health care to keep pace with a rapidly changing society is a matter of which of the following?
A) Lack of third-party payers
B) Maldistribution of the workforce
C) Shortage of providers
D) Maldistribution and shortage of providers

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The inability of the oral healthcare system to keep pace with a rapidly changing society is a matter of maldistribution, and, in some instances, a shortage of oral healthcare providers. Such conditions have a direct impact on access and utilization of services. This presents an opportunity to transform the oral health workforce into one that that practices using an interprofessional collaborative approach (see Chapter 2) that can "align and incentivize oral, medical and behavior health systems to support an interprofessional care delivery model for the individual, family, and the whole community which includes patient-centered care, prevention, education, and risk reduction in order to strengthen health outcomes.

The Inability of Oral Health Care to Keep Pace with a Rapidly