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Many Americans aren't giving enough attention to a key element of good health that's right under their nose. A major report from the Institute of Medicine is raising the ...

When it comes to dental care in Rural Alaska, the need far outweighs available care. To help solve the problem, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium began training ...

BETHEL, Alaska -- Conan Murat has a tough schedule. About every other week he packs up a portable dental office, checks his groceries, sleeping bags and other supplies, ...

Every week I read something about dental therapists and how states around the country are considering these new providers as a way to expand access to dental care, ...

August 9, 2011 -- SAN FRANCISCO - California should change restrictive licensing regulations, reinstate the Denti-Cal program for adults, and appoint a state dental ...

To the editor: The Kansas Dental Association’s call for an additional 140 dentists to see Medicaid patients, while commendable, is not enough to help the thousands of ...

The Commission on Dental Accreditation voted Aug. 5 to grant the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry’s request to establish accreditation standards for dental ...

Kathy Balasko, RDH, MS, a manager with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium's (ANTHC) Dental Health Aide Therapist (DHAT) program in Bethel, was recently awarded ...

While the health care law has survived Republican efforts to repeal it, some of its individual initiatives are in limbo or limping along because of funding problems. ...

Despite opposition from the Missouri Dental Association (MDA), the Missouri Dental Board has become the first dental board in the U.S. to endorse a proposal for midlevel ...