Tag: oral health
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Lacking money, insurance and dentists, oral health takes a back seat, and many rural areas are barely on the bus
A dentist works at a Remote Area Medical Clinic in Wise, Va.(Associated Press photo by Steve Helber) Dr. Nikki Stone is a dentist who works in Hazard, Ky., at a...
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Free dental, health, vision clinic to help hundreds this weekend
This weekend, about 1,000 people will get free dental, medical and vision care in Pike County. The effort is sponsored by Kentucky’s Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps, which hosts a...
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New oral health coalition expected to spur changes in state
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News For the past 30 years, Dr. Fred Howard of Harlan has been seating patients in his blue dental chair and telling them to open...
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Diabetes can cause gum disease and tooth decay
Though it’s commonly known that diabetes can affect organ function and eyesight, an oral-health expert points out that the disease can also cause tooth decay and gum disease. “Diabetics with...
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Like nurse practitioners in medical field, dental profession needs mid-level providers, expert argues
With 50 million Americans living in poor or rural areas where there are no dentists to go to — and that number expected to rise by more than 5 million...
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Effort to boost oral health in nursing homes gets tangled up with industry’s attempt to insulate itself from lawsuits; both bills die
A bill to get nursing-home residents better dental services “appears to be dead after the Senate added language from another bill designed to shield the nursing-home industry from litigation,” Deborah...
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State starting free training for dentists in pediatric dentistry
One of the many problems with Kentucky’s oral health is that not enough dentists are willing to accept children as patients, or lack proficiency in treating children when they are...
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More young kids going under anesthesia to fix bad dental problems
Preschoolers are increasingly having to undergo extensive surgery to get fix the cavities they’ve gotten from lack of brushing, get root canals or have teeth extracted. Five years ago, the...
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As with health care reform, dentistry should move from volume to value, report urges
Dentists should be paid according to the outcomes of their patients and should be monitored more closely given that there is great variability and expense when it comes to dental...
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Smile Kentucky! celebrates 10 years and more than 100,000 children helped
Smile Kentucky! celebrates its 10-year anniversary tomorrow, representing $1 million in free dentistry and benefiting more than 100,000 students. “It’s a wonderful program,” said Arleta Watkins of Bullitt County Schools. “I’ve...