dentistry

A group of healthcare professionals warns: identifying more children in need of care may be creating a new issue

Dr. Tom Ison, Pediatric Dentist and President of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry joins the show.

Thanks to a recent grant from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Cherry Health is piloting a new “teledentistry” program

A West Michigan dentist is taking the state to court over what he calls “illegal bias training” required for renewing healthcare licenses

Three decades before Rosa Parks refused to sit in the "colored" section of a Montgomery, Alabama bus, a Black Grand Rapids dentist refused to sit in the balcony of the Keith's Theatre.

Advances in public health around the world are grounded in four areas: fluoridation, immunization, water purification and pasteurization. In the 1930s, the U.S. Public Health Service determined tooth decay “an urgent public health problem.” As part of NPR’s series on historical markers, Off the Mark, WGVU revisits Grand Rapids’ fluoride story with two dentists who lived it.