by Caitlin Locklear | Mar 27, 2024 | Blog
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. has provided medical and dental care for patients in three North Carolina counties for years. But during that time, the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) was having trouble accessing a specific part of the population that...
by Darren Edwards | Mar 15, 2024 | Visual Report
Perspectives from Nationally Representative Data To address disparities in oral health care, it’s critical to understand how people perceive and experience the oral health care system. CareQuest Institute’s annual State of Oral Health Equity in America survey does...
by Darren Edwards | Nov 14, 2023 | Journal Article
Which is more cost-effective to treat initial caries lesions — traditional restoration or noninvasive therapies? A study in the Journal of the American Dental Association finds that several noninvasive caries therapies improve outcomes for patients and are more...
by Caitlin Locklear | Oct 23, 2023 | Blog
On September 15, 2022, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to approve a new procedure code for the application of silver diamine fluoride (SDF) by medical professionals to arrest cavities. The addition of this code is a milestone in medical-dental integration...
by Caitlin Locklear | Oct 9, 2023 | Blog
Throughout her career, Gretchen Henson, DDS, has provided personalized prevention recommendations for patients, knowing that they all have different backgrounds and lifestyles. “I spend so much of my appointment trying to figure out what their home life looks like, so...
