Tennessee Dental Hygienists' Association

TDHA Mission Statement
To improve the public's total health, the mission of this association is to advance the art and science of dental hygiene by ensuring access to quality oral health care; increasing awareness of the cost-effective benefits of prevention; promoting the highest standards of dental hygiene education, licensure, practice, and research; and representing the interests of dental hygienists.

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Tennessee Graduates Their First Local Anesthesia Class!

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01/08 - Finally after waiting 4 long years RDHs can finally take courses for administering local anesthesia that have been approved by the TN Board of Dentistry. Several TN Dental Hygiene schools are in the process of setting up programs which will begin soon.

Chattanooga State - www.dentedonline.com

TN Rules & Regulations for Local Anesthesia for Dental Hygienists

Get the Facts on Fluoride

Access to Oral Health Care takes Center Stage in Washington D.C.

ADHA Emphasizes Access to Care Issues after Recent Tragedy

Criminal Background Check Required
For All New Licensees

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Need information on getting your Tennessee Dental Hygiene license?
Get all the information at the Board of Dentistry website
Board of Dentistry

If you have moved or changed your name please update that information with the Board of Dentistry
Download the reporting form here

TDHA Partners with TN District Attorney's Meth Free TN campaign

Get FREE information, brochures & Posters on Meth at www.methfreetn.org

ADHA Launches Public Health Web Page
A new section has been added to ADHA Online–a Public Health section The Council on Public Health (CPH), dental hygiene leaders across the nation, and staff worked together on this project in the interests of informing and educating dental hygienists and the public on pertinent dental public health issues.

Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner
In an effort to address the severe oral health disparities
plaguing millions across the U.S., ADHA is establishing
an advanced dental hygiene practitioner (ADHP) position.
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