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November 2005, Vol 95, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1880-1881
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.074773

LETTER

APHA PRESIDENTS SUPPORT DENTAL THERAPISTS

Myron Allukian, Jr, DDS, MPH, Michael E. Bird, MSW, MPH and Caswell A. Evans, Jr, DDS, MPH

Myron Allukian Jr is an oral health consultant in Boston, Mass. Michael E. Bird is a public health consultant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Caswell Evans Jr is with the Prevention and Public Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Dentistry, Chicago.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Myron Allukian Jr, 100 Boylston St, Suite 806, Boston, MA 02116 (e-mail: myalluk@aol.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

As past presidents of the American Public Health Association, we were quite surprised to read the commentary coauthored by Dr. Sekiguchi,1 a past president of the American Dental Association (ADA), and ADA staff in the May 2005 American Journal of Public Health opposing the use of dental therapists in rural Alaska.1 This commentary, which was published without an Op-Ed piece, would be comparable to the Journal publishing a commentary from only the American Medical Association in the 1960s stating that there is no need for pilot programs for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or nurse-midwives, even in high-need areas, and that . . . [Full Text]






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