Joanna Aalboe, RDH, MPH, is an assistant professor and a public health dental hygienist at the UK College of Dentistry. She works in the Division of Dental Public Health in research and outreach. Aalboe is also a doctoral student in the educational policy studies and evaluation program at UK’s College of Education. She can be reached at joanna.aalboe@uky.edu.
By providing education and training resources to caregivers, dental teams can help improve the daily oral hygiene of long term care facility residents.