Advocating for
By Ashley Festa
Dartmouth Health Children’s Leads Regional Partnership to Advocate for Kids’ Complete Well-being
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artmouth Health Children’s pediatric residents began to note that their patients have tooth decay, and though not dentists, these physicians-in-training are primed to care for the whole patient. Using the advocacy skills they learned in the Dartmouth Health Children’s Community Pediatrics curriculum, they discovered that parents sometimes struggled to access a dentist to manage their child’s oral health.
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