{"id":885,"date":"2020-04-13T22:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehealthworkforcehub.org\/?p=885"},"modified":"2020-04-13T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:45:36","slug":"why-should-you-become-a-dentist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/why-should-you-become-a-dentist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should You Become a Dentist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dentistry is a career that provides plenty of rewards and challenges as well as an opportunity to help people and make communities healthier places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With population growth, changes in health care law and the upcoming retirement of a large group of dentists educated during the 1960s and 1970s, the need for new dentists is rapidly increasing. Practicing dentist-to-population ratios vary widely, but range from roughly 42 to 108 dentists per 100,000 people, according to the American Dental Association. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adea.org\/GoDental\/Dentistry_101\/Why_be_a_dentist_.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.adea.org\/GoDental\/Dentistry_101\/Why_be_a_dentist_.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With population growth, changes in health care law and the upcoming retirement of a large group of dentists educated during the 1960s and 1970s, the need for new dentists is rapidly increasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[161,52,162,67,163],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-career-seekers","tag-career-options","tag-dentistry","tag-exercise-creativity","tag-oral-health","tag-team-work"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}