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dental
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Going international for dental care: Questions patients should ask
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are traveling abroad each year for health care services. Many factors are helping to drive…
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How, and why, some schools provide dental care for needy children
In a series of stories, “The Burden of Poverty: A Backpack of Heartache,” reporters at the School News Network, based…
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Students find new angles to cover at free dental clinic
The Journalism Center on Children & Families, formerly the Casey Journalism Center, is scheduled to close at the end of…
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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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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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Editorial: No reason to artificially constrain supply of dental practitioners
In a recent editorial, The Washington Post endorsed the licensing of dental therapists to expand care to millions of Americans…
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Tennessean reporter investigates complaints over Medicaid dental provider
Quite a few folks in Tennessee are upset right now with DentaQuest, the giant dental benefits company that took over…
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Reporter looks into rise in kids’ orthodontic care in Wash.
Though a state investigation has failed to prove that any dental providers committed fraud, scandal still hovers over Texas’ Medicaid…
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Study: Midlevel providers expand dental care to those in need
From dental therapists working in clinics in rural Alaska and urban Minnesota to hygienists using telehealth technology in California schools,…