Because the voice of a female-dominated workforce of oral well being professionals, the Canadian Dental Hygienists Affiliation (CDHA) is proud to rejoice Worldwide Girls’s Day on March 8. CDHA acknowledges this as a time to rejoice the exhausting work and accomplishments of all ladies within the career of dental hygiene.

This yr’s theme for Worldwide Girls’s Day focuses on the need of investing in ladies to speed up their financial empowerment. It’s a crucial alternative to replicate on how one can higher assist feminine professionals in oral well being care.

As important main well being care professionals, dental hygienists practise in a wide range of scientific settings together with conventional dental clinics and independently owned dental hygiene companies, constructing extra capability for care, notably for underserviced populations comparable to seniors, residents in long-term care, and other people residing in rural and distant communities. Below the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP), dental hygienists will play an integral position in growing entry to oral well being care for roughly 9 million Canadians who, up to now, won’t have been capable of afford to go to an oral well being skilled for crucial preventive oral well being providers.

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