{"id":8742,"date":"2018-01-13T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/ucla-school-of-dentistry-receives-1-5-million-for-community-based-education\/"},"modified":"2018-01-13T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:00:31","slug":"ucla-school-of-dentistry-receives-1-5-million-for-community-based-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/ucla-school-of-dentistry-receives-1-5-million-for-community-based-education\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA School of Dentistry receives $1.5 million for community-based education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UCLA School of Dentistry has received a $  1.5 million grant from the state \u2019s largest dental benefits provider, Delta Dental of California, to support launching a community-based clinical education program. The award, which will support UCLA student dentists to care for some of the most vulnerable patients in California, is the largest that Delta Dental has ever given a dental school.Many Californians face inadequate access to oral health care services for many reasons. The biggest challenges are the uneven distribution of providers, underfunded public health programs, lack of understanding of the importance of oral health and difficulty in identifying available resources.\u201cThis funding enables the dental school and Delta Dental to have an even stronger presence in bridging the gap w&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"medworm\">\n<p><b><i>MedWorm Message:<\/i><\/b> Have you tried our new <a href=\"https:\/\/medworm.com\/\">medical search engine<\/a>? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/medworm.com\/480554962\/ucla-school-of-dentistry-receives-15-million-for-community-based-education\/\">MedWorm: Dentistry News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UCLA School of Dentistry has received a $ 1.5 million grant from the state \u2019s largest dental benefits provider, Delta Dental of California, to support launching a community-based clinical education program. The award, which will support UCLA student dentists to care for some of the most vulnerable patients in California, is the largest that [&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":[10485,10486,58,2409,877,2410,510,3025],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-1-5","tag-communitybased","tag-dentistry","tag-education","tag-million","tag-receives","tag-school","tag-ucla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-2h0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","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=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}