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House Select Committee on COVID-19 committee meeting, sparsely attended due to the coronavirus
Posted inInfectious Disease

State lawmakers start moving on coronavirus relief

by Rose Hoban March 27, 2020April 9, 2021

By Rose Hoban Even as Congress acts to provide financial relief for families and industries that have been shell-shocked by the effects of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, legislators at the N.C. General Assembly are starting to address the many legal and financial issues the ongoing outbreak is presenting to the state. This week, lawmakers met […]

A dental professional like a dental hygienist or dentist puts a flashlight into someone's mouth. It's a proxy for dentists and oral health and oral cancer screenings because of HPV
Posted inOral Health

NC dentists and dental hygienists have been in a long tug-of-war over practice limits. Hygienists just gained a bit of ground.

by Anne Blythe January 23, 2020January 30, 2020
dental hygientists tools laid out on a tray and a hand picking up one of those tools.
Posted inOral Health

Can North Carolina dental hygienists help fill coverage gaps through a public-private partnership program?

by Anne Blythe July 31, 2019July 30, 2019
Posted inOral Health

Dental therapy might not be what you think, but is it for North Carolina?

by Anne Blythe June 3, 2019November 13, 2019
shows a woman caring for a patient who is in the dental chair. She has a gown, goggles and gloves on, and is looking at a teledentistry camera that's in the office.
Posted inOral Health

Will North Carolina dig its teeth into teledentistry?

by Anne Blythe May 15, 2019November 13, 2019
oral health advocates visit legislators' offices, they're met at the door of one of them in this photo by a young woman
Posted inPublic Health

Raising the Profile of Better Oral Health

by Jared Weber June 6, 2018June 6, 2018

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