UTHSC launches $53M ‘Healthy Smiles’ project to increase dental care across Tennessee
Over the next five years, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Dentistry will collaborate with The Tennessee Department of Health on the $53 million Healthy Smiles Initiative to increase access to dentists and dental care across Tennessee. (Submitted by UTHSC College of Dentistry)
The state-funded Healthy Smiles Initiative will tackle Tennessee’s shortage of dentists and work to make dental care more readily available.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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