Dental Support Center

4400 Auburn Blvd. 2nd Floor

Sacramento, CA 95841

Phone: 916-929-9761

Fax: 916-929-7246

www.crihb.org/dental

California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc.

Stacey Wobbe has been a Registered Dental Hygienist at Greenville Rancheria since

February 2008. Prior to that, she worked for Dr. Robert Dunbar in private practice, as

an RDA since 1999. As a registered dental hygienist, she is passionate about providing

quality dental hygiene care and education, for her patients as well as the community at

large. She is currently involved with numerous public health committees, and has

participated in numerous outreach projects. She has worked with the California First

Five program, which resulted in implementing a program in her office for pregnant

women and their newborn babies to help them to establish a dental home.

Stacey also attends a quarterly Early Intervention Partnership meeting that focuses on helping children and fami-

lies obtain family resources which include social services, medical care, dental care, early school and social readi-

ness services. She has written and received an oral health mini grant that was funded by the Dental Support Cen-

ter at CRIHB, this addressed the dental needs of our Native American children in her community to ensure that

they were seen for dental exams, fluoride treatment, dental cleanings, and sealant placement.

This year, the Field Advisory Committee of the National Oral Health Council chose her for the 2015 Clinical

Excellence Award for the Dental Hygiene Senior Category for demonstration of clinical excellence in service to the

IHS Dental Program. Stacey says that watching the changes in her patients not only clinically, but to see them

actually feel better about themselves and practice continuing home care with vigor, gives her joy and fuels her

passion for dental hygiene and dentistry in general.

Meet Stacey Wobbe RDH, Our New Advisory Committee Member!

DSC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Rick Trahin, DDS—Feather River Tribal Health (Northern CA Programs)

Li Lin, DDS—Central Valley Indian Health (Central CA Programs)

Alice Huang, DDS—American Indian Health Services (Urban Tribal Programs)

Stacey Wobbe RDH—Greenville Rancheria (RDH Representative)

Eileen O’Neal, RDA—Chapa De Indian Health (RDA Representative)

Steve Riggio, DDS— Area Dental Officer (IHS/CAO)

Rosario Arreola Pro, MPH—HSD Director (CRIHB)

Lalani Ratnayake—Dental Support Center Coordinator (CRIHB)

In a continued effort to encourage and recognize excellent performance by IHS dental program personnel, the NOHC announces these awards honoring dental assistants, hygienists, dentists, and a specialist. These 2015 annual awards recognize the following individuals who have excelled at the provision of Oral Health Care:

Junior Dental Assistant: Ms. Tammie Miller [Alaska Area]

Senior Dental Assistant: Ms. Arlene Yazzie [California Area—Consolidated

Tribal Health Program]

Junior RD Hygienist: Ms. Jill Coultas [California Area—Greenville Rancheria]

Senior RD Hygienist: Ms. Stacey Wobbe [California Area—Greenville

Rancheria]

Junior Dentist: Dr. Alexander Campagna [Nashville Area]

Mid-Career Dentist: Dr. Brittany Satini [Navajo Area]

Senior Dentist: Dr. Kathryne Feng [Albuquerque Area]

Specialist: Dr. Mohamed Awad, Oral Surgery [Oklahoma City Area]

Congratulations to Arlene, Jill and Stacey!!

California Dental Support Center

NEWSLETTER Volume 7 Issue 1 October 2015

CA Dental Support Center

Gets funded for another Five Years!

Our Mission

Reduce dental decay

in Native American

infants, children, and

adults. Provide

training, technical

assistance, and

resources to tribal and

urban dental clinics

operating in California.

California Rural Indian Health

Board, Inc.

4400 Auburn Blvd.

Sacramento, CA 95841

Visit us at:

www.crihb.org/dental

The Dental Support Center at California Rural Indian Health Board has successfully secured the

five year grant from the IHS for Preventive and Clinical Dental Support Centers. This award of

$250,000 per year will enable the DSC to execute our mission to promote better oral health to

AIAN communities served by the 35 tribal/urban health programs in California.

The DSC will focus on four main goals:

Program Goal 1: Build capacity by providing training and technical assistance to tribal/urban dental clinics operating in CA. Program Goal 2: Implement clinic-based initiatives to promote preventive programs to address oral dis-eases in AIAN children and adults. Program Goal 3: Conduct community-based initiatives to enhance prevention programs through Tribal Head Start, Early Head Start, and Tribal Child Care Centers. Program Goal 4: Continue to improve and enhance the services provided through Dental Support Center. The DSC staff would like to extend our gratitude to all tribal council members, and dental directors who

showed their support through tribal resolutions and letters of support for the grant application. We look forward to working with you!

2015 IHS National Oral Health Council (NOHC)

Clinical Excellence in Dentistry Awards

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The Dental Support Center Receives Grant from the

California Wellness Foundation to Improve Oral Health Services for AIAN Adults and Seniors

An award of $125,000 per year, for three years will be for a project to promote Periodontal Disease Prevention and

to provide partial dentures to AIAN adults and seniors. Partial dentures are a service that is not covered by Medi-Cal

and the DSC is excited to be able to partner with four tribal programs to provide this much needed service.

Our partners for this project are:

United Indian Health Services

Sonoma County Indian Health Project

Toiyabe Indian Health Project

Tule River Indian Health Program

Sonoma County Indian Health Project Utilizes Mobile Dental Unit to

Provide Access & Care to Tribal Head Start Children

Greenville Rancheria Dental Clinic Promotes Oral Health

at the Stillwater Powwow

On October 2nd& 3rd, 2015 Sheryl Weston, RDA and Jill Coultas, RDH

from the Greenville Rancheria clinic, set up a dental booth at the Pow-

wow held at the Shasta District Fair Grounds in Anderson, CA.

We provided information, answered dental questions and handed out

toothbrush kits, pamphlets, etc. An estimated 300 toothbrush kits

were dispensed. Twenty-one dental screenings were done, mostly on

children. We focused screenings on people with a dental concern, or

children that had yet to visit a dentist. Of the Twenty-one screened, 10

had active caries. Fluoride varnish was applied on all but one. A large percentage of people we talked with were

edentulous. Perhaps next year we can provide denture care products. Tobacco use prevention information was

handed out and the chewing tobacco cessation bags kits were quite a hit.

Jill Coultas, RDH

Greenville Rancheria Dental, Red Bluff, CA

The Mobile Dental Units Provided by The Dental Support Center

Assists Tribal Programs to Serve Their Communities

Access to dental services has always been a challenge to the remote community of Manchester Point Arena Reservation.

On September 23rd and 24th 2015, Dental Director Joel Berryhill DDS and Melissa Bailey

RDA from SCHIP set up a mobile dental clinic in the tribal Head Start school. For the very first time the children from this rural reservation had the opportunity to access preven-tive dental services, without traveling long distances. Fifteen children received services which included exams, prophys, fluoride applications and education.

Maleese Warner, a teacher from Head Start said "The Manchester Point Arena Tribal Head Start is in a remote part of California and the closet SCIHP dental clinic is a two hour drive. The families where overjoyed to have this opportunity to have dental check-ups at the local Rancheria. We are all grateful that SCIHP came to help the families and hope to see them every year!"

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TELEDENTISTRY Opens a new path for Access!

Assembly Bill 1174 was approved by the Governor which provides another

pathway to increase access to underserved populations.

Teledentistry by Store and Forward enables Medi-Cal providers to practice

teledentistry, as defined as the transmission of medical information to be

reviewed at a later time by a licensed dental provider at a distant site.

(Allied dental professionals, such as RDHAP, are not permitted to bill for

services provided via teledentistry).

Providers may bill for store and forward transmission on or after July 1,

2015. Please refer to the Denti-Cal Bulletin for further details.

http://www.denti-cal.ca.gov/provsrvcs/bulletins/Volume_31_Number_15.pdf

Here are two challenges for all

of you!

The current GPRA year

challenges are to improve

access for all AIAN population

and pregnant mothers.

2016 GPRA Challenge 1

Meet your Access goal to win

$500. Most Improved Access

performance within the last 2

years in each of the four

population groups will win

$500.

2016 GPRA Challenge 2

Improve Access by 2% for

pregnant mothers to win

$300.

Dental Support Center 2014-2015

GPRA Challenge 1 & 2 Winners

CONGRATULATIONS!

Tribal Program GPRA Challenge Winner

(Annual Goal met )

Most Improved

Within last 2 years

Highest Performers

(Service to AIAN)

Improved Access for

Pregnant Mothers

Central Valley Indian Health $500 $500

United Indian Health Services $500 $500

Chapa–De Indian Health $500

Toiyabe Indian Health $500 $500

Consolidated Tribal Health $500

Southern Indian Health Council $250

Northern Valley Indian Health $500

MACT Health Board $250

Lake County Tribal Health $500 $500

Round Valley Indian Health $250

San Diego AIHC $250

Tuolumne Me-Wuk Clinic $500 $500

Quartz Valley $500

Sacramento Native AHC $250

Sycuan Dental Clinic $500

2015-2016

GPRA Challenge is On!

SAVE THE DATE!SAVE THE DATE!

2016 CA Area Dental Continuing Education Meeting2016 CA Area Dental Continuing Education Meeting

May 2nd May 2nd ——5th, 2016 in Sacramento, CA5th, 2016 in Sacramento, CA