{"id":8632,"date":"2023-10-11T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2023-10-11T18:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:11:24","slug":"can-dental-therapists-ease-the-dentist-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2023\/10\/11\/can-dental-therapists-ease-the-dentist-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Dental Therapists Ease the Dentist Shortage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/dentist-shortage-dental-therapists-97e2c885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8634\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-11-at-11.08.21-AM-300x143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-11-at-11.08.21-AM-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-11-at-11.08.21-AM-1024x489.png 1024w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-11-at-11.08.21-AM-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-11-at-11.08.21-AM-1536x733.png 1536w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-11-at-11.08.21-AM.png 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many Americans lack proper access to dental care. Could creating more dental therapists\u2014clinicians who have less training than dentists but can provide some routine dental care like exams and fillings\u2014help?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/dentist-shortage-dental-therapists-97e2c885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans lack proper access to dental care. Could creating more dental therapists\u2014clinicians who have less training than dentists but can provide some routine dental care like exams and fillings\u2014help? Read the article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wohw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8635,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions\/8635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}