A decade after the state allowed dental therapists to offer general dental care in parts of rural Alaska, a new study shows a big increase in early intervention, reducing the need for more serious treatment. (via AlaskaBeacon)
Andrea Alexie mans a booth on Friday at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention giving information about opportunties for dental-care education. The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium operates a dental therapy program, which has proved important in rural regions where traditional dental service has been scarce.
From 2006 to 2015, the study found, there was a “substantial” increase in diagnostic and preventive dental care in the region, corresponding to the phase-in of dental therapy practices. There was also an increase, though not as big, in the number of restorative services provided annually. But by 2012, dental therapists were providing as many or even more of certain types of services, the study found. Dental therapists and dentists were each providing about the same number of diagnostic and restorative services starting in that year, and by 2012 dental therapists had surpassed dentists in the number of preventive services performed, according to the study.
Christina Mostoller, a student in the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s dental therapy program, is seen Wednesday at the ANTHC Development Center.
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