How to Start a Dental Clinic

If you are looking to start a clinic from scratch, there are many resources available to help. Here is a list of resources that have been helpful for other organizations. 

NNOHA Resources: 

• Sample Dental Budget
• Health Center Oral Health Start-Up Tool Kit 
• Needs Assessment of Health Centers without Dental Programs

Other Resources: 

• For the Henry Schein document "Essentials of Dental Clinic Planning & Construction", click here.
• Visit www.dentalclinicmanual for reccomendations.
• For the Colorado Community Health Network's Oral Health Staffing Guidelines for CHCs, click here.
• For Sullivan-Schein Merchandise and Equipment Catalogs, click here.
• For Sullivan-Schein binder on Supply Pricing and Planning a Dental Clinic, e-mail Kathleen Titus
• For Armor Mobile Systems' mobile dental clinic design blueprints, click here.
• For the Ohio Department of Health-Indian Health Service-Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual, click here.
• For the Children's Dental Health Project's "Improving access to dental care through public-private partnerships: Contracting between private dentists and federally qualified health centers" Manual, click here. This is a step-by-step handbook produced for the Connecticut Health Foundation by the Children's Dental Health Project to help increase access to dental care through public/private partnerships.
• Mobile-Portable Dental Manual.
• Ohio Dental Safety Net Information Center -  Although Ohio focused, there are currently 3 reccomended distance learning courses posted there, and more to come. The content can certainly be useful to those across the country.