Oral Health Care: An Autoethnography Reflecting on Dentistry's Collective Neglect and Changes in Professional Education Resulting in the Dental Hygienist Being the Prevention-focused Primary Oral Health Care Provider

Many factors influence poor oral health among disadvantaged populations including socioeconomic circumstances, knowledge of disease prevention strategies and ability to implement those strategies, public policies, insurance status, insurance policies, dental providers and other challenges to accessi...

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Main Author: Harrington, Maureen Patricia McWeeney
Format: Others
Published: Scholarly Commons 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3636
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4633&context=uop_etds