Dalhousie University’s dean of dentistry expects dental clinics and offices to be able to reopen sometime next week for urgent and emergency cases, with routine dental care in Nova Scotia resuming several weeks after that. A public health order shut down dental offices in the province in March — other than eight sites for emergency care — … Read more
The places where you can get emergency dental work done will be more limited in Nova Scotia as of today. The Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia, which regulates the profession, introduced a new protocol Tuesday that will restrict those procedures to particular locations because of the COVID-19 outbreak. As a result, dentists who want … Read more
As the province develops its first oral health strategy, new numbers show that fewer and fewer Nova Scotians are taking advantage of existing oral health services for children. The Department of Health and Wellness expanded dental coverage for children 14 and under last year, but that program is being accessed three per cent less often … Read more