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You don’t need to be a dentist to fill a cavity

Reason.com’s Eric Boehm writes that midlevel ‘dental therapists’ can care for underserved Medicaid patents—but dentists see competition.

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PBS NewsHour: Millions of Americans Face Life Without Dental Care

First of two televised PBS NewsHour stories on America's dental care crisis. The lack of access to dental care is a problem that affects millions of Americans. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports.

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Dental Provider Shortage in America

By W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Oral health is critical to overall health, yet millions of Americans can’t get access to dental care where and when they need it: in their own communities.

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Dental Therapists: Safe Insurable Providers

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Dental therapists provide safe, quality care. As a result, they are very inexpensive to insure for malpractice and liability.

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