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New guidelines may encourage use of low-cost, painless dental treatment
A treatment that offers a painless, minimally-invasive alternative to drilling and filling teeth has gotten a boost from a prominent…
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Reporter explores how state’s economic health affects its oral health
The Oklahoma newspapers in the Community Newspaper Holding Inc. (CNHI) chain offered readers a series that examines the everyday challenges…
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California looks to improve oral care access for its youngest residents
To help ensure a lifetime of better oral health, experts recommend that babies receive their first dental exam no later…
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Congressional inaction leaves states squeezed on CHIP funding
With Congress failing to meet a Sept. 30 deadline to extend federal funding, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) now…
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Efforts advance in Michigan to allow dental therapists
A Michigan legislator has renewed efforts to expand the state’s dental workforce to include dental therapists as a means to…
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Poll points to dental insecurity among many middle-aged Americans
One in three Americans aged 50 to 64 are ashamed about the state of their teeth, and an even larger…
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Children’s health advocates anxious that CHIP funding will slip through the cracks
Amid the ongoing debate over the fate of the Affordable Care Act, another landmark federal health care program faces an…
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Newspaper’s economic health series explores role of oral health
The oral health of a state or community can serve as an interesting lens for examining economic health. That is…
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What we can learn from the failed effort to pass ‘Caleb’s Law’ in California
As part of her beat covering politics for the nonprofit media organization CALmatters, Laurel Rosenhall has documented the long battle…
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Mass. may be moving closer to use of dental therapists to hold down Medicaid costs
Earlier this summer, Gov. Charlie Baker lent his support to a long-running effort to bring a new class of dental…