U.S. Reps. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Candice Miller (R-MI) introduced on Thursday the Dental Emergency Responder Act (H.R. 903), a bill designed to bolster the U.S.' capacity to respond to natural disasters or terrorist attacks by taking advantage of the education, training, and professionalism of the nation's dentists.
"This legislation, which calls for no new federal spending, would incorporate dentistry by name into federal and state disaster response frameworks, improving the nation's first-response infrastructure by deploying dentists during a natural or man-made disaster," said ADA President John Findley, D.D.S., in a prepared statement.
"Dentists receive a sound general medical background during their professional education," he added. "With proper preparatory training in disaster response, their knowledge and experience can make them valuable assets in the community response to man-made and natural disasters."
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