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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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Bonnie JohnsonBased in Emmonak, AK

Employed by Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation

“I was raised in a village that did not receive consistent dental care. Dental providers would come and go. Unfortunately, there were villages that did not receive any dental care. Now, I am a Dental Health Aide Therapist who is able to provide much needed dental care to 4 villages on the Yukon Delta. I am able to educate many that had little or no knowledge of the importance of good oral hygiene. The majority of the children were fearful of dental because they usually had experienced the trauma of having teeth extracted in a papoose board. Now that I have been stationed in the Emmonak sub-region for over a year, children anticipate a fun dental visit. I am proud to provide preventive and basic restorative dental care to rural Alaska.”

Mariah Kindle, BS

Admissions Coordinator

I joined the MEDEX Northwest admissions team in 2005 and was the admissions coordinator for the first DENTEX class. I have recently returned to DENTEX as admissions coordinator look forward to helping more DHAT classes with the admissions process. I recently completed a Bachelor of Science degree focusing on health care law and policy. I will pursue a Masters program focusing on policy studies. My research interests include health and education access issues, health disparities in rural and urban underserved communities, and constitutional law.


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