{"id":16815,"date":"2020-09-15T07:38:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T11:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2020-09-15T07:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T11:38:26","slug":"new-dental-treatment-helps-fill-cavities-and-insurance-gaps-for-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16815","title":{"rendered":"New Dental Treatment Helps Fill Cavities and Insurance Gaps for Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Crouch for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u2015 Dental hygienist Jennifer Geiselhofer often cleans the teeth of senior patients who can\u2019t easily get to a dentist\u2019s office. But until recently, if she found a cavity, there was little she could do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t drill. I can\u2019t pull teeth,\u201d said Geiselhofer, whose mobile clinic is called\u00a0Dental at Your Door. \u201cI\u2019d recommend they see a dentist, but that was often out of the question because of mobility challenges. So visit after visit, I would come back and there would be more decay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But now Geiselhofer has a weapon to obliterate a cavity with a few brushstrokes.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/new-dental-treatment-helps-fill-cavities-and-insurance-gaps-for-seniors\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Crouch for Kaiser Health News) DENVER \u2015 Dental hygienist Jennifer Geiselhofer often cleans the teeth of senior patients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-dentaloral-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","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=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16816,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions\/16816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}