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Delivering dental care in rural schools using telehealth

By Health Resources & Services Administration on September 09, 2024
Delivering dental care in rural schools using telehealth Telehealth can be used by dentists to provide care to children in a rural school.

Dental Public Health Practice: Improving the Oral Health of California Communities

By Jayanth Kumar, DDS, MPH; Sepideh Banava, DDS, MSc, MPH; Lisa Berens, DDS, MPH; Lynn Walton-Haynes, DDS, MPH on May 07, 2024
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Improving Oral Health Using Teledentistry and Virtual Dental Homes: Concepts and Progress

By Adam Lampe, BA, Sevinch Djalilova, BS, Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA, and Valerie Phillips, BS, MS, RDH, RDHAP on March 20, 2024
ABSTRACTBackground: In the last several decades new delivery systems have been developed and tested that demonstrate the ability to reach people who traditionally do not receive dental care. These systems bring care to people in community locations, using allied oral health personnel and social...

$4M NIH Grant Will Teach Artificial Intelligence to Spot Cavities

By Laura López González on November 30, 2023

Dental Public Health – An Elusive Specialty With a Community Heart

By Christine Hao on April 07, 2023
When I say I’m a resident in Dental Public Health, I typically receive two responses: #1: “Nice! What do you do?” and #2: “So, do you see patients?” I realize there is no short answer and if that sparked your interest, read on.