Health Care
A dentistry crisis
Joel Strom writes for the Washington Examiner about a little-known American health care challenge. Few things are more concerning than kids without access to quality medical care. That’s especially true…
Dentistry
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What Will the Innovators Think Of Next? Check Out The Rolling Dentist Office
Who knew going to the dentist could be an experience? Check out this story about a dentist on wheels that’s targeting Millennials — not folks who are living on the…
Health Care
Let Dental Therapists Practice In North Carolina
Looking at North Carolina’s health care landscape, dental health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) are just as severe as HPSAs for primary care and mental health providers. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation,…
Health Care
Dental Therapists Bringing Better Access To Health Care For Rural Patients
Legislators in North Carolina are acutely aware that health care is hard to come by in rural areas of the state, which is why the committee on Access to Healthcare…
Liberty
Why You Should Brush Your Teeth, Children
The Macon County dental clinic had been running profitably until it started a denture program. Now, it may have to shut down. Saith the Macon News: When the program was…
Law & Public Safety
Leef’s latest Forbes column targets the teeth whitening police
One suspects that the American Founders never expected government to get involved in teeth whitening. (Imagine George Washington contemplating that possibility.) George Leef’s latest Forbes column focuses on a court…
Liberty
Dentist battle heats up
There’s a fight brewing between dental management companies and some dentists as I wrote here and Rick wrote here. Seems the fight is now over public records and has moved…
Health Care
Helping people without a license
Live Blog You can have a complaint filed against you for explaining traffic patterns too well. You need a license to braid hair, and there are even hurdles to opening…
Liberty
Re: ECU Dental School
As with teachers, North Carolina makes it difficult for out-of-state dentists to set up shop.
Liberty
The proposed ECU dental school
Today’s N&O has a story on the proposed East Carolina dental school that is edging into advocacy journalism. The piece makes it seem as if the opposition to building a…
Liberty
Is it safe?
…..asked Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man. I knew illegal dentistry was bit of a problem in Charlotte. So I wondered how long it would be before an illegal dentist would…
Liberty
Build it, and they will come?
We (my wife and I) have been watching a medical building (for dental offices) go up behind our nearby CVS for months now, and it has seemed to take for-ev-er…