Executive Summary Polverini 2017 The Impact of Research on the Future of Dental Education: How Research and Innovation Shape Dental Education and the Dental Profession Slavkin 2017 How Research Training Will Shape the Future of Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research D’Souza 2017 The Future of Dental Schools in Research Universities and Academic Health Centers McCauley 2017 Oral Health Care in the Future: Expansion of the Scope of Dental Practice to Improve Health Lamster and Myers-Wright 2017 Research and Discovery Science and the Future of Dental Education and Practice Polverini and Krebsbach 2017 The overall goals of the project are to critically assess the current state of oral health professionals’ education and practice in the United States; identify important trends that will shape the future of dental education and practice over the coming 25 years; develop practical strategies for restructuring dental education to address long-range challenges, including those related to finances, research, diversity, and access disparities; and prepare a long-term strategic plan for implementing the changes needed in dental education. The project also aims to identify sustainable economic models that will provide dental schools with necessary resources to meet their interrelated missions of education, research, and service; recommend ways to strengthen the science-based clinical education programs of dental students and residents; and develop plans for closer integration of dental schools with other academic health center units so as to produce more effective and efficient education, research, and clinical programs. Women scientists remain underrepresented in leadership positions in dental education and research. ...there is a dearth of underrepresented minority scientists in biomedical research at all levels of the research workforce. While dental schools should continue to aggressively compete for funding from NIDCR, their research portfolio should also expand to other NIH institutes, other federal agencies (e.g., National Science Foundation, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense), foundations, and industry.