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Caring for Older Adults Residing in Institutions

Jan 5, 2016

...but oral health may be an afterthought. Additionally, professional oral health care services may not be easily accessed in RCFs. The 2004 National Nursing Home Survey noted that 62.5% of...

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Tobacco Trends

Feb 16, 2017

...college students. Nicotine Tob Res. 2016;18:163–169. Moyer VA, US Preventive Services Task Force. Primary care interventions to prevent tobacco use in children and adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation...

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CE Sponsored by Colgate in Partnership with the American Academy of Periodontology: Maintaining Oral…

Feb 1, 2018

...activity is electronically mediated. Pods Embed Error: Pod not found. INTRODUCTION Patients with disabilities face many challenges in accessing oral health care services. This article reviews the barriers, strategies, and...

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Guest Editorial: The Colorado Medical-Dental Integration Project

Mar 1, 2018

The traditional model of providing clinical dental hygiene services in a private practice setting involves a daily patient schedule. Dental hygienists provide a full scope of dental hygiene services to...

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What’s New on the Legislative Front

Oct 1, 2017

...hygiene services. In fact, they may also own their own practices. Likewise, California’s RDHAPs may practice as independent contractors or own their own practices, with services rendered under general supervision,...

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Volunteerism in Exchange for Dental Care

Oct 1, 2017

...Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, in 2008 15.6% of Michigan residents did not receive dental care in the previous 12 months due to cost.7 A report commissioned by...

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Reflections from Minnesota

Oct 1, 2017

...of barriers to professional oral health care, including poverty, language, immigrant status, and cost. Six years later, I joined Children’s Dental Services (CDS) in Minnesota as executive director. I was...

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Legislative Update

Oct 10, 2016

...Affordable Care Act (HR 3590), a revision was added to allow a tribe or tribal organization “to elect the use of dental health aide therapist where such services are authorized...

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Representing Dental Hygienists

Oct 1, 2016

...diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, and referral services. The midlevel oral health practitioner has met the educational requirements to provide services within an expanded scope of care, and practices under regulations set...

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Going Back To Dental Hygiene’s Roots

Oct 1, 2015

...Data Brief. 2015:191;1–8. US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. National and state-level projections of dentists and dental…