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Bipartisan agreement produces bill to expand school-based preventive dental care
Summary
House Bill 321 would allow limited-access-permit (LAP) dental hygienists to provide preventive services in school-based oral health programs; stakeholders including the Department of Labor, Montana Dental Association, and Montana Dental Hygienists Association reached a collaborative compromise and urged passage.
House Bill 321, presented in the Senate Business and Labor Committee by Representative Nellie Nicoll, would explicitly allow Dental Hygienists who hold a Limited Access Permit (LAP) to deliver limited preventive dental services in school-based oral health programs to eligible students.
Rep. Nicoll and the Department of Labor and…
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