Summary :
A recent article in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Developing and Deploying a New Member of the Dental Team: A Pediatric Oral Health Therapist (2005 65:48-55), written by David A. Nash, DMD, MS,EdD, proposed the development of a lower level practitioner as a dentist-substitute for the provision of caries treatment for children as means of addressing ”the significant disparities in oral health that exist among children in the United States” (1).

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