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Dental care for people with developmental disabilities
Writing about the lives of developmentally disabled people and their caregivers? Don’t overlook the topic of dental care. Research indicates…
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Legal feud over dental service shows no sign of lightening up
A long feud between North Carolina’s state dental board and a group of non-dentists who provide teeth-whitening services may have…
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How are patients dealing with rising costs of dental coverage?
Dental benefits are on many people’s minds these days, as stories from across the country testify. In Georgia, Rockdale County…
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U.S. children lacking in dental care, other preventive treatments
A newly published federal study finds that millions of American young people have been missing out on key preventive health…
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Dental complaints in California pile up unseen
Reporter Rachel Cook’s “Dental Dangers” series, published this summer in The Bakersfield Californian, explores a long history of complaints and lawsuits…
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California reverses course on pediatric dental coverage
Last year about this time, we were reading about Covered California’s decision to require parents seeking pediatric dental coverage on…
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Calif. dental board allows complaints to accumulate outside public view
Reporter Rachel Cook took a long and detailed look at the career of one Bakersfield, Calif., dentist and ended up…
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Reporter shares experience covering Medicaid’s orthodontic benefits
After a hint from her own dentist, Sheila Hagar started looking into concerns about the rising numbers of Medicaid kids getting…
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Baseball’s Schilling blames tobacco for cancer; what do reporters need to know about links?
The ties between smokeless tobacco and baseball run deep. The immortal Babe Ruth claimed Pinch Hit was his chew of…
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Are medical, dental boards public or private? Case over teeth-whitening services may decide
A long-simmering feud between North Carolina’s state dental board and a group of non-dentists who provide teeth-whitening services in malls…