Dental Therapists In Alaska

NPR reports that Alaska is now training ordinary citizens as dental therapists.  While this should make dentistry more available to lower-income individuals, are the therapists adequately trained to perform these procedures?

Could they eventually create more harm it botched procedures than good?  This should be an interesting trend to follow as unemployment remains high over the next few years.

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