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Coming to a State Near You

By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS

The topic of the day in the dental industry concerns the recent WK Kellogg Foundation announcement of their $16 million initiative to help dentalcare stakeholders in five U.S. states, including Kansas and New Mexico, develop dental therapist programs similar to Alaska’s experiment in low cost – high risk dentalcare. The project is moving forward because of reportedly excellent results in a 2 year study following 5 therapists who are a couple of years out of high school with 400 hours of training and 300 Alaskan patients in hard to reach places. That’s risky even in the best of conditions in better climates. It doesn’t take many tragedies to eat up the savings from cheap.

A Balanced Article

DrBicuspid.com contributing writer Mary Otto posted a balanced article on the topic titled “More states moving forward with midlevel providers.”

http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?d=1&sec=sup&sub=pmt&pag=dis&ItemID=306190

In My Opinion

I am very pleased to see ADA President Dr. Raymond Gist making his presence known concerning the dental therapist controversy. At last count, his name has come out on the Internet four times since yesterday – even though the ADA had to pay a lot of money for the press releases. If dentists fail to represent the interests of dental patients, nobody else will.

Assessment

Paid advertisement is not as effective and not as cheap as an ADA Facebook would be, but press releases are certainly better than silence from ADA President Dr. Raymond Gist.

Conclusion

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Filed under: Career Development, Managed Care, Op-Editorials, Practice Management, Pruitt's Platform | Tagged: ADA, Darrell Pruitt, DDS, dental therapsts, Dr. Raymond Gist, Mary Otto, WK Kellogg Foundation | 11 Comments »