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    DENTEX is an Alaska based program that educates dental health aide therapists to provide dental care to Alaska Native communities. The program is a collaboration between the Alaska Native Health Consortium and the University of Washington School of Medicine Physician Assistant Training Program, MEDEX Northwest.

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    Launched in 2007 as a collaborative effort between the Alaska Native Tribal Health Center and the University of Washington, DENTEX was developed to meet the oral health needs of native Alaskan people across 200 remote villages.

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    In February, staff reflected on the last four years as we wrote our report narrative for WK Kellogg Foundation. We realized that in spite of some extreme setbacks, Alaska DHAT has accomplished its objectives, and then some: in villages currently served by DHATs, over 35,000 more people in rural Alaska now have access to oral healthcare.

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Faculty

  • Louise Achey, PhD
  • Robert Allen, DDS
  • Kathy Balasko, BS-RDH, MS
  • Ruth Ballweg, MPA, PA-C
  • Tom Beckman, DDS
  • Kenneth Anthony Bolin, DDS MPH
  • Anthony Brusca, DDS
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  • Suzanne Eberling, DMD, PhD
  • Louis Fiset, BA, DDS
  • Beatrice Gandara, DDS MSD
  • Ron Nagle, DDS
  • Katherine Rafferty, PhD
  • Sarah Shoffstall-Cone, DDS, MPH
  • Philip Weinstein, PhD
  • Mary Williard, DDS

Patient Profile

Gracie NelsonBethel, AK

“I’ve been coming to the Bethel Clinic for two months now. It didn’t take long for me to get an appointment in Bethel, like the same day. Growing up in the village we always had to travel to Bethel to get our dental work done.  Back then they didn’t have enough providers. Today the DHATs are able to go into the village and do that work there.”

Kenneth Anthony Bolin, DDS MPH

Clinical Instructor

Dr. Bolin is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas. He teaches both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral students in dental public health and preventive dentistry.  As medical director of the Sammons Cancer Center dental clinic, he treats cancer patients and medically compromised patients with dental needs in an outpatient hospital affiliated oncology clinic.  After graduating from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio with a DDS degree in 1981, he completed a fellowship program in Dental Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 1992 and obtained his Master of Public Health degree from the UT School of Public Health-Houston in 1994.  Dr. Bolin received his certificate in Dental Public Health in May 2003 from TAMHSC Baylor College of Dentistry and became board certified by the American Board of Dental Public Health in 2005.


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