Dental therapists, who can fill cavities and check teeth, get the OK in more states

During a game of Red Rover when she was 16 years old, Rochelle “Roz” Siuvuq Ferry lost a front tooth. Ferry, who is Inupiaq, remembers having to get on a plane to get from her remote Alaskan village to the city of Nome to start the tooth replacement process. Traveling to Nome for dental care is what everyone in her community had to do—even for a toothache or a basic cleaning. There was no such service where they lived. Ferry knew many members of her community whose teeth decayed so badly, they needed extraction—simply because they didn’t have access to Read More