CBC featured a UBC study that calls on the federal government to expand a program preventing tooth decay in remote Inuit and First Nations communities.
Health Canada’s program called the Children’s Oral Health Initiative tries to increase access to preventive oral health services for Inuit and First Nations children up to age eight.
“Communities that had more days not of an externally contracted oral health professional, but a community member that was trained to be an oral health knowledge keeper, it seems like the dental disease levels in those communities are less,” said Kavita Mathu-Muju, a professor at UBC’s School of Dentistry, and one of the study’s authors.
