California Dental Health Care Filling News
Marlena Shore a dental hygienist, has witnessed countless examples of the painful cavities and toothaches afflicting people who can not afford to go to the dentist.
Yet that is starting to change due to a new California law that authorizes dental hygienists to treat cavities without a dentist on site by placing low-cost, temporary fillings.
Shore is one of the first dental hygienists in Southern California who will be certified to apply the fillings, called interim therapeutic restorations, under the law that took effect in January. She joined two dozen other dental hygiene educators and dentists Saturday for a two-day training program conducted by Northern California-based University of the Pacific on the campus of West Coast University in Anaheim.