{"id":6603,"date":"2016-02-08T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/dental-hygienist-providers-in-long-term-care-meeting-the-need\/"},"modified":"2016-02-08T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:00:08","slug":"dental-hygienist-providers-in-long-term-care-meeting-the-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/dental-hygienist-providers-in-long-term-care-meeting-the-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Hygienist Providers in Long-Term Care: Meeting the Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conclusion Oral health is a significant health concern for elders and others in long-term care settings. Daily oral care practices and optimal oral health are related to the well-being and quality of life that long-term care residents deserve.2 Pathways to providing preventive oral health services will gain momentum as dental hygienists become an integral part of the long-term care setting healthcare team. (Source: Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice)<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medworm.com\/index.php?rid=164934645&#038;cid=d_11_11_f&#038;fid=40185&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Frss.sciencedirect.com%2Faction%2FredirectFile%3F%26zone%3Dmain%26currentActivity%3Dfeed%26usageType%3Doutward%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.sciencedirect.com%252Fscience%253F_ob%253DGatewayURL%2526_origin%253DIRSSSEARCH%2526_method%253DcitationSearch%2526_piikey%253DS1532338216000208%2526_version%253D1%2526md5%253D6a317ad7d557afaf599b909395c11a32\">MedWorm: Dentistry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conclusion Oral health is a significant health concern for elders and others in long-term care settings. Daily oral care practices and optimal oral health are related to the well-being and quality of life that long-term care residents deserve.2 Pathways to providing preventive oral health services will gain momentum as dental hygienists become an integral part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,97,6037,415,844,517,2547],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-care","tag-dental","tag-hygienist","tag-longterm","tag-meeting","tag-need","tag-providers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-1Iv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}