Sources for Locating Dental Providers

Use these sources to find or create a resource list of pediatric dental providers in your area:

• Your state’s Oral Health Resource Guide (Search on ”your state” Oral Health Resource Guide in any search engine)
• Medicaid and CHIP Web sites
• State Department of Health—for a list of Medicaid providers
• AAPD Web site
• ADA Find a Dentist
• Insure Kids Now – See the Find a Dentist search engine
• Dental schools
• State or county dental societies
• American Network of Oral Health Coalitions—check your state’s coalition for a dental provider list already created or whether they may be willing to assist in creating one
• Community health clinics, rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers

Tap into the AAP COHA network and explore these sources:

• Federally qualified health centers (community clinics) – some, not all have dentists associated
• Early Head Start programs
• Head Start programs

Use the Dental Referral Resource Sheet template provided on the How Do I Help Children To Find a Dental Home? tab on the AAP Oral Health Practice Tools Web page to record provider information.