As a dental hygiene faculty member, you collaborate with a local hospital to develop a dental clinic for special needs patients. You form an interdisciplinary committee to plan the clinic and its programs, seek grant funding, and pursue policy changes to facilitate the program. Plans include the use of an interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) approach to operating the dental clinic.
-Which current workforce model would be able to provide both dental hygiene and dental services in this program?

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From the answer choices in this question, the DHT, authorized in Maine, is the only current workforce model with a scope of practice that includes preventive and periodontal services traditionally provided by dental hygienists as well as restorative services. The Alaska DHAT and Minnesota ADT are authorized to provide preventive and restorative services but no periodontal services that are currently in the dental hygiene scope of practice. The CDHC proposed by the American Dental Association and currently in eight states is authorized to provide preventive and limited palliative restorative services.

As a Dental Hygiene Faculty Member, You Collaborate with a Local