...through assessment, 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...

...been sharply criticized for its failure to provide adequate services to enrollees.18 Recent actions by Denti-Cal to limit payment for common RDHAP services, by requiring pre-authorization and radiographs, curtails their...

Since 2004, Arizona has allowed qualified dental hygienists to enter into an affiliated practice relationship with a dentist to provide oral health care services for underserved populations without supervision in...

...in small towns to provide preventive and restorative services. DENTAL HYGIENE CLINICS GO MOBILE FIGURE 2. A dental hygiene student provides preventive services to a child inside a mobile dental...

...recommends the addition of a comprehensive oral health benefit to Medicare Part B as it covers outpatient services. Such a benefit would be amended to include dental services using the...

...state—and in the entire country for that matter. She practices at the nonprofit Children’s Dental Services in Minneapolis, serves as president of the American Academy of Dental Therapy, and is...