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California's kids could use a trip to the dentist. One-fourth of children younger than age 12 in California have never even been to the dentist, according to a new Pew ...

The American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) has published a series of papers highlighting proposed curriculum guidelines for the training of dental ...

It is too bad that recent writers have criticized the idea of expanding the dental team to include a new mid-level provider (“Two years not enough for dental-work ...

Since the W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced its $16 million dental therapist project late last year, grassroots coalitions have been pushing forward with efforts to ...

Mike Saxl, House speaker during the 120th Legislature (2000-2002), has been working with the Pew Charitable Trusts on a project that’s intended to remove barriers that ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - More and more Ohio emergency rooms are treating patients who show up suffering from broken or infected teeth, but who don't have access to regular dental ...

About 1.5 million Ohioans have no medical insurance, and patient advocates estimate that three times that number don't have dental coverage in the state.

This is a big week for dental care in Minnesota, and maybe nationwide. The country's first class of dental therapists (DTs) and advanced dental therapists (ADTs) -- ...

Pratt, Kan. —Ninety-one Kansas counties, including Pratt, are considered to be underserved and 14 of them don’t have any dentists at all. A solution, according to Kansas ...

For many Americans, requesting time off work, excusing the kids from school, booking a hotel room and reserving $400 plane tickets sounds like preparation for a ...