The North Carolina Institute of Medicine Oral Health Transformation Task Force has developed recommendations for integrating dental care into overall health care.
Dentists from federally qualified health centers spend weekends with specialists practicing wisdom tooth extractions and other complicated oral health procedures.
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At a board meeting in February, the state dental board discussed how that might play out across North Carolina, with members debating whether dentists would want to vaccinate people in their offices or volunteer their time at larger vaccination clinics.
Bobby White, chief executive officer of the state dental board, explained to members in February that Cooper had delegated authority to Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, to set up requirements with the North Carolina Medical Board and dental board so dentists would not have to administer vaccines under the direct supervision of a physician.