Because the voice of a female-dominated workforce of oral well being professionals, the Canadian Dental Hygienists Affiliation (CDHA) is proud to rejoice Worldwide Girls’s Day on March 8. CDHA acknowledges this as a time to rejoice the onerous work and accomplishments of all ladies within the career of dental hygiene.

This 12 months’s theme for Worldwide Girls’s Day focuses on the need of investing in ladies to speed up their financial empowerment. It’s a crucial alternative to mirror on find out how to higher assist feminine professionals in oral well being care.

As important main well being care professionals, dental hygienists practise in quite a lot of medical settings together with conventional dental clinics and independently owned dental hygiene companies, constructing extra capability for care, notably for underserviced populations akin to seniors, residents in long-term care, and folks residing in rural and distant communities. Beneath the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP), dental hygienists will play an integral position in rising entry to oral well being care for roughly 9 million Canadians who, prior to now, may not have been in a position to afford to go to an oral well being skilled for crucial preventive oral well being providers.

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