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Ensure Safe Practice While Volunteering

Dec 4, 2017

...patients and deliver services not otherwise available. It also provides a chance to perform a high volume of work without regard for whether the patient can pay. Sometimes, there is...

Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation Releases New Funding Opportunity

Dec 5, 2017

...hygienist into their medical teams to provide dental hygiene services. This RFA is part of Wave II of funding for DDCOF’s Colorado Medical-Dental Integration (CO MDI) Project, which seeks to...

News & Info

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PROGRAM EXPANDS DENTAL WORKFORCE

Apr 10, 2018

...Services Administration. Hawaii has a high prevalence of dental caries among its pediatric population. According to the Hawaii Department of Health’s 2016 third grade surveillance report, 71% of third graders...

Latest Features

The 9th Annual 6 Dental Hygienists You Want to Know

Dec 3, 2016

...II, and III credential, which enables her to provide school-based services to children in local schools serving children in grades kindergarten through 12. She also provides portable dental hygiene services...

Fluoride

Community Water Fluoridation

Apr 8, 2018

...websites dominate the Internet compared with pro-fluoridation sites.17 Not only are pro-fluoridation websites fewer in number, they also receive drastically fewer “hits” when compared with anti-fluoridation sites.17 Research…

Infection Control

Improving the Safety of Dental Unit Waterlines

Jun 5, 2018

...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Department of Health and Human Services; 2016. IMPORTANCE OF MONITORING The only way to ensure a quality program is to test the...

Guardian Supports Children’s Health Fund in $1 Million Partnership for Oral Health

Jun 5, 2018

...U.S. Guardian is a lead sponsor of Children’s Health Fund’s dental program and the donation will fund screenings, clinics and mobile dental services for children in communities including New York,...

WITH Foundation Awards $120,000 to Dugoni School of Dentistry’s Special Care Clinic and Hospital…

Jun 20, 2018

...severe conditions across four broad areas: cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities, genetic abnormalities, and seizure disorder. For more information about the Special Care Clinic and Hospital Dentistry Program, please visit…

Perspectives

Interim Therapeutic Restorations

Oct 1, 2017

...health services are provided to underserved and vulnerable populations via teams of allied dental professionals who use telehealth technology in community settings throughout California.2 ITRs require the removal of carious...

Perspectives

Impact of Racial Disparities

Oct 1, 2016

...caries and tooth loss and have fewer dental visits and preventive services. Combine this with some 114 million Americans who do not have dental insurance coverage and the signs are...