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dental
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Complaints about dental benefits provider mounting
The rumblings in Tennessee started earlier this year, after a new company took over the contract to provide dental services…
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When a charity clinic is only option for dental care
Reporter Katie Hiler decided to look into dental care for the poor in Missouri. The situation, she concluded in her reporting…
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Kansas reporter shares rural perspective on access to dental care
Along with coverage of everything from Congressional wrangling over the Farm Bill to livestock management to wildlife conservation, High Plains/Midwest Ag…
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Despite ‘essential’ designation, dental benefits lacking under ACA
State and federal policymakers should take steps to make dental benefits less costly and more widely available under the Affordable…
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Lack of access to dental care leads to expensive emergency room care
In recent years, hospital emergency departments (EDs) have drawn millions of poor and underinsured patients coping with dental problems. Yet…
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Questions arise about oversight of pediatric dentists, sedation
The state of Hawaii continues to investigate the death of a 3-year-old girl who went into a coma after visiting…
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HHS moves to block chain of dental clinics from receiving Medicaid
Small Smiles, one of the nation’s largest dental chains, is facing exclusion from Medicaid, David Heath of the Center for…
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Movement toward enabling dental therapists gets boost in Maine
The battle over mid-level dental providers has come to Maine and reporters at the Portland Press Herald have been closely…
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Growth, expanding scope of practice among changes for dental assistants
There are more than 300,000 dental assistants at work across America and their ranks are expected to increase 25 percent…
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S.C. adults may gain dental benefits as part of Medicaid plan
Adult dental benefits would be added to South Carolina’s Medicaid program under a plan being considered by the state legislature.…