Brushing up on oral health

Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada (2013) recently noted that, in the territories, “oral health outcomes are alarmingly poor.” First Nations and Inuit oral health status is two to three times worse than that of the general Canadian population.1 Most would agree that First Nations and Inuit communities experience some of the highest oral disease burdens in the country, which in th [...] Burden of Oral Disease in the Northwest Territories The recent Canadian Health Measures Survey, First Nations Oral Health Survey, and Inuit Oral Health Survey, confirm the significant. [...] Minister of Health, Government of 10 Brushing Up On Oral Health Impacts of Poor Oral Health and the Benefits of Oral Health Care Descriptions have been provided with respect to the oral. [...] The impacts of poor oral health and the benefits of access to timely Jackson. [...] In 2009, the state of Minnesota authorized the training and provider types: the Primary Dental Health Aide, the Expanded practice of dental therapy, with the first dental therapists entering Function Dental Health Aide, the Dental Health Aide Hygienist and practice in 2011.