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At Issue
Ensuring the oral health of our servicemen and women is essential to maintaining overall troop readiness. This can only happen with a properly trained and staffed dental corps. Keeping the Army, Navy and Air Force Dental Corps fully staffed has been and remains challenging, in part because military/federal dentists are not compensated as well as their counterparts in the private sector. The ADA works continually to guide Congress in implementing sufficient incentives to alleviate the chronic military dental workforce shortfall.
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In the News
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ADA Military Legislative Achievements in 2006 | PDF file/26k
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ADA Priorities
While a number of provisions to recruit and retain military dentists were included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2007 (NDAA), more can be done. Congress should consider expanding current law to provide incentive special pay (ISP) to ALL military dentists. Under current law only physicians and oral surgeons receive ISP and it has proven effective in recruiting and retaining these professions. ISP should be extended to all dentists.
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Letters and Testimony
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Contact Us
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Federal Affairs
1111 14th Street NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
202.898.2400
Fax: 202.898.2437
E-mail: govtpol@ada.org
State Government Affairs
ADA Chicago Headquarters
211 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
312.440.2525
Fax: 312.440.3539
E-mail: govtpol@ada.org
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