Clinician gaps can put more than a chair at risk. They can affect schedules, teams, patient access and practice continuity. Barton Associates Dental exists to keep dental care within reach when coverage changes. We bring together the things that matter when you need dental staffing.
When clinician coverage gaps put access, schedules or practice continuity at risk, we bring the staffing depth and support to keep care moving.
And where dental professionals can build flexible, supported careers through locum tenens.
We bring dental knowledge, clinician relationships and operational support together to make coverage more considered, more coordinated and more accountable.
We believe the best coverage decisions happen when you look beyond the open position.
The right clinician for one practice may not be right for another. Experience, workflow and environment all shape a good match.

A coverage gap can become a patient access problem. Staffing is part of keeping care within reach.

You should know where things stand, what happens next and who owns it.

Clinicians, practices and patients are not transactions. They are the reason the work matters.

We stay with the work, from the first conversation through the assignment.

A focused approach to dental staffing, built around the realities of different specialties, settings and coverage needs - for practices, DSOs and dentists.

A team of recruiters, account managers and credentialing specialists who work only in dental.

Clinician access across general dentistry and dental specialties.

Licensing, credentialing, onboarding and assignment support, connected from start to finish.

Long-term relationships with practices, organizations and clinicians, not one-off transactions.

Coverage capabilities across markets and communities throughout the country.

Staffing infrastructure that brings technology and operational discipline to the process.
Barton’s teams work across the country, bringing national staffing capabilities closer to the communities and organizations they serve.