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October 26, 2023 | 2:39 PM

Pennsylvania looks to add extensive dental care to Medicaid, again

By Ben Wasserstein/WITF

February 16, 2023 | 4:36 PM

Pennsylvania dentists discuss oral health during Children’s Dental Health Month

February is Children’s Dental Health Month and Dr. LaJuan Mountain, vice president of dental services at Family First Health, and Dr. Sam Mansour, Pennsylvania Dental Association’s statewide national children’s dental health month chair, joined us on The Spark Thursday to discuss the importance of children’s dental health, the barriers to receiving dental care and ways to overcome them.

By Aniya Faulcon

July 6, 2020 | 9:28 AM

The dentist will see you now. But should you go?

Both the World Health Organization and the CDC say there have been no confirmed cases of COVID-19 transmitted in a dental office, so far.

By Fran Kritz/NPR

December 6, 2019 | 5:11 AM

Inside the battle between Smile Direct Club and ‘organized dentistry’

Dentists have been locked in a fierce battle with mail-order orthodontics company Smile Direct Club for years now. If that’s news to you, it may be because dentists, I learned, are mild-mannered, solitary creatures.

By Jad Sleiman/WHYY

May 29, 2019 | 9:22 AM

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Pennsylvania looks to add extensive dental care to Medicaid, again

Pennsylvania dentists discuss oral health during Children’s Dental Health Month

The dentist will see you now. But should you go?

Inside the battle between Smile Direct Club and ‘organized dentistry’

For adults on Medicaid, getting dental care is an uphill battle

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