Dental hygienists across California are receiving training to treat cavities without a dentist on site after a law went into effect this year expanding their scope of practice, the Los Angeles Times ...

DENTAL HYGIENISTS. NEVER TURN YOUR BACK. OKAY? FOR FIRST YEAR DENTAL HYGIENE STUDENT MALIK HOLTZMAN AND HER CLASSMATES, LEARNING IS PRETTY HANDS ON. THEY GET REAL EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH PATIENTS. I ...

Allukian, a former dental director for the city of Boston, said dental hygiene practitioners will cost less to train than dentists and could operate outside traditional dental offices, bringing care ...

Annie Leon considered several health-care careers until a billboard in Fort Myers steered her to Hodges University. It advertised the launch of a four-year bachelor’s degree program for dental ...

Two first-generation college sisters started their career training in dental hygiene at Savannah Technical College. Lawanda Harris, received a dental hygiene associate of science degree from the ...

It took Allison Beining and Kaitlyn Weyenberg almost three years to get accepted into Fox Valley Technical College’s dental hygiene program. While they inched up the waiting list for one of the ...

Farmingdale State College is expanding its dental care training and patient care for those with special needs. The initiative is thanks to a donation to the Farmingdale State College Foundation from ...

BOSTON -- Elderly and low-income residents are not getting adequate dental care, according to health care and anti-poverty advocates, and it's costing the state big bucks. A coalition advocacy groups ...