Why Strengthening the Dental Hygienist Profession is Key to Solving Our Oral Health Crisis
Reinforcing educational standards will enable hygienists to perform more advanced procedures and raise the standard of care.
Reinforcing educational standards will enable hygienists to perform more advanced procedures and raise the standard of care.
Salivary testing represents more than a new tool; it’s a scalable strategy to shift care upstream, reduce preventable emergencies, and bring equity to a population too often left behind.
Giving dentists more hands-on training provides a platform for repeated practice, real-time feedback, and continuous improvement, helping prepare students with the confidence and consistency they need to succeed in patient care.
The integration of the latest technologies improves diagnostic quality and accelerates treatment solutions, decreasing the time patients spend in discomfort or pain due to dental issues.
Current technology can't single-handedly solve all dental workforce issues, but there is much it can do to lighten the burden.
The way dentistry has embraced technological innovation to make patient care both safer and more comfortable serves as an example for the rest of the healthcare sector.
Since its launch in 2017, the mobile dentistry startup has signed up more than 70 customers including major enterprises like Merck, ADP and Vonage.
The company has been self-funded so far, but is in the process of securing venture capital, the CEO said.
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