{"id":55060,"date":"2025-08-08T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55060\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:01:18","slug":"nova-scotia-ranking-high-for-dental-health-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55060\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia ranking high for dental health, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitsandpensionsmonitor.com\/news\/industry-news\/whos-getting-the-most-dental-care-in-canada\/392159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">provinces with the best access to dental care in Canada<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitsandpensionsmonitor.com\/news\/industry-news\/whos-getting-the-most-dental-care-in-canada\/392159\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">,<\/a> with the east coast seeing some encouraging results.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by dental experts at HelloDent, analyzed the distribution of dental professionals across all Canadian provinces to determine which regions have the best access to oral healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Provinces were ranked by dental access per 100,000 residents and per 100,000 square kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario led the country with 68.44 dentists per 100,000 residents, while Nova Scotia ranked fifth with 49.98 dentists per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>When ranked by dental care per 100,000 square kilometres, Prince Edward Island came in first and Nova Scotia placed third.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for HelloDent said residents in underserved areas often face longer travel times to access dental care, higher costs and delayed treatment.<\/p>\n<p>They added that mobile dental clinics, telehealth services and incentives for dental professionals to work in underserved areas could help improve access to care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study identified the provinces with the best access to dental care in Canada, with the east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-55060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}