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can hear great!

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Please add your questions to the Q&A box. Thanks!

21:27
Would closed captions be possible? Thanks!

22:37
Hi Lee - Yes, I will add the captions. Thanks!

23:22
Thanks Melissa! (My first name is Lee Che -- both parts)

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Whose traditional land are you on today? native-land.ca

24:56
Thank you for including the land acknowledgement.

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Learn more about the Washington Dental Access Campaign at https://www.wadentalaccess.com/join-us

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Sign up for individual updates in WA at https://p2a.co/v5lcUFl

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Lee Che - Thanks for asking for the captions! Is it showing up for you?

27:23
@Melissa, captions are on! Thanks!

27:33
great. enjoy the webinar!

28:33
Hi Jake - I see your hand is raised. Can I help you with something?

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Wahpekute Dakota

34:58
Warm, moving and thoughtful introduction from Valerie.

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DHAT stands for Dental Health Aide Therapist, which is what dental therapists are formally titled in the Community Health Aide Program (CHAP), the federal program dental therapists can work under in tribal communities

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Hi all I'd like to introduce our Dentalthon program. It's a 30 day teledentistry school based oral health literacy and assessment program. https://www.loom.com/share/6749b0b0c4d1406bb7bfd259fc977f3a?sharedAppSource=personal_library

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Happy to send you more information about the Dentalthon. Please reach out to me at ddavis@rockridgemobile.com thank you. Darryl

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Thanks, Darryl!

01:02:06
It is almost 20 years, since The ADA House of Delegates, at which the ANTHC intention to send sight DHAT candidates to Otago became known. I watched the beginning of its angry and deep seated opposition stir delegates to a frenzy.

01:02:30
I really appreciate the two year program model. Itβs what we wanted in Az but wound up, like many states, with a dental hygiene degree requirement and a dental therapy train program completion. When we talk about health equity, we need to see how those multiple degree requirements are not exactly examples of health equity.

01:05:12
This is the 10 year study of dental therapists in an AK community that Tera mentioned: http://faculty.washington.edu/dchi/files/DHATFinalReport.pdf

01:10:41
Degrees have become the tools, by which organized dentistry and hygiene have been able to deter community members from pursuing dental therapist education. When a baccalaureate and two additional years, along with an RDH become requirements, the dream of what is possible withers and too often dies. I would love to see DHATs available to FQHCs, in "The Lower '48," so that the

01:12:56
I assume you will send out a link to the recording in the near future. Thanks, frank

01:14:08
Area Health Education Centers {AHECs} in some portions of the US have missions of creating early awareness of health occupations, growing our own providers and support of existing providers.