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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
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  • Kenneth Anthony Bolin, DDS MPH
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  • Beatrice Gandara, DDS MSD
  • Ron Nagle, DDS
  • Katherine Rafferty, PhD
  • Sarah Shoffstall-Cone, DDS, MPH
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DHAT Profile

Tatiana BarracloughBased in St. Paul, AK

Employed by Aleutian Islands Pribilof Islands Association

“I was raised and grew up in Atka, out on the Aleutians and the Pribilof islands. My mother was a Community Health Aide, so she travelled a lot. Usually, I travelled with her when she moved from different communities. It is very difficult and expensive to travel out in the Aleutians, so many people choose to wait until a dentist decides to fly out before they get treatment. Most people cannot afford to pay for treatment from the two private dentists who live there — there are no IHS dentists. To be able to go home and provide basic care all the time is great. I am able able to help people before they need emergency treatment.”

Mary Williard, DDS

Director, Dental Health Aide Therapist Training Program

Dr. Williard graduated from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry in 1994 and completed a 2 year General Practice Residency at the Carolinas’ Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1996.  She is now the Dental Health Aide Therapist Training Director for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage, Alaska.  She has worked in American Indian/ Alaska Native dental programs since 1996, including having experience supervising DHATs working in remote villages.


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