{"id":16052,"date":"2020-05-21T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16052"},"modified":"2020-05-21T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:27:11","slug":"reopening-dental-offices-for-routine-care-amid-pandemic-touches-a-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16052","title":{"rendered":"Reopening Dental Offices For Routine Care Amid Pandemic Touches A Nerve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Tom Peeling wanted his teeth cleaned and wasn\u2019t going to let the coronavirus pandemic get in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, his six-month regular appointment was scheduled for earlier this month, just days after dental offices were allowed to reopen in Florida for routine services. In late March the state ordered dentists to treat only emergency cases as part of its efforts to keep residents at home and to preserve limited medical supplies, such as N95 masks, that might be needed to treat COVID-19 patients.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/reopening-dental-offices-for-routine-care-amid-pandemic-touches-a-nerve\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15589\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_s_176191196pandemic-virus-coronavirus-covid-19-infection.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) Tom Peeling wanted his teeth cleaned and wasn\u2019t going to let the coronavirus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dentaloral-health","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16053,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052\/revisions\/16053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}