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Registered Dental Hygienists in Alternative Practice: Increasing Access to Dental Care in California

Categories: Workforce, Supply & Demand, Recruitment and Retention, Education and Training, Forecast, Diversity, Health Policy, Economics and Financing, Scopes of Practice

Tag: Dentistry

Authors: Elizabeth Mertz

REPORT: In 1998, California officially recognized a new dental health profession: the Registered Dental Hygienist in Alternative Practice (RDHAP). RDHAPs may practice unsupervised in homes, schools, residential facilities and other institutions, and in Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas. Recent RDHAP licensees (over two hundred in the last few years) have been able to set up practices... Read More

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