In December 2020, Community Catalyst convened a panel of experts to discuss the intersection of oral health policy and racial justice. In addition to this recap, the webinar recording is now available.
Ground-breaking decision represents an important milestone in the movement and opens the door for other dental therapy educational programs to follow.
When the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s dental clinic had to limit patient visits due to COVID-19, staff shifted to providing outdoor dental services. It’s enabled them to provide more care for the community.
Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Endorses Dental Therapists
With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, dental therapists have shown that they can uniquely step in and provide care that otherwise might not occur.
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part blog on COVID-19 and health equity.
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part blog on COVID-19 and health equity.
Dental therapy not only brings cost-effective oral health care to underserved communities, it also creates good-paying, local job opportunities
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought even more attention to the health disparities of vulnerable populations and we must continue to act.
Now more than ever, advocates can lift up and expand innovative community-based models of care and the policies that support them to better address the oral health needs of all people.
Generations ago, before contact with European colonizers, Alaska Natives had some of the best oral health of any population on the planet.
As National Children’s Dental Health Month ends, you likely have seen some of the wonderful things dentists have done to provide care to the underserved. But here’s the issue: access to dental health care isn’t just an issue in February.
