JUNEAU – Rep. Ivy Spohnholz saw her legislation to broaden Alaskans’ access to dental care pass the House floor today in a vote of 34-1. If passed, HB 111 will establish a special permit to allow experienced, Alaska-licensed dental hygienists to provide preventative oral health care to underserved populations. “Oral hygiene plays a critical role […]
ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is reinstating Alaska’s adult preventive dental program (also known as the Adult Enhanced Dental Program) for Medicaid recipients effective Dec. 31, 2019. Program services will also be retroactively covered to Oct. 1, 2019, when the program was discontinued as part of an overall effort to […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]laska State Troopers took a Soldotna man into custody on Burglary and other charges on Tuesday morning after pursuing him for over an hour in the woods near Sterling, troopers revealed. AST responded to an alarm at the Moose River Dental practice in Sterling at 3 am early Tuesday morning. They found that the […]
JUNEAU, October 17, 2017 – The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Children’s Dental Clinic now provides state-of-the-art laser surgery using the LightScalpel CO2 laser for oral surgery procedures. The laser replaces instruments that would have bruised or crushed tissue causing lengthy, uncomfortable recovery periods as well as scarring. The FDA approved, American-made LightScalpel is […]