Quality of patient care

These Professionals Could Provide Dental Work, at Lower Cost. So Why Doesn’t Arizona Want Them?

Newspaper article by Ken Alltucker. (January 24, 2017). The Arizona Republic. https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/health/2017/01/23/push-for-dental-therapy-in-arizona-stalls-amid-legislative-resistance/96836364/

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‘Drilling Perfectly Healthy Teeth’: Some Indiana Dentists Pressured to Profit, Insiders Say

Newspaper article by David Heath, Mark Greenblat, and Aysha Bagchi. (March 19, 2020). Indianapolis Star. https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2020/03/19/indiana-dentists-pressured-make-profit-former-insiders-say/2864933001/

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Dental Tourism — Bargain Dentistry and a Vacation to Boot

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Jawbreaker

Children’s chapter book by Christina Wyman. Farrar Straus Giroux: New York, 2023.   More and more kids in the U.S. wear braces. Not all of them, though, are like 7th grader Max Plink, who has to wear braces and orthodontic headgear nicknamed the jawbreaker, because of her severe malocclusion. Even with these treatments, she might have

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