APA coordinates donated health & dental care for low-income, uninsured Alaskans.
07/30/2025
If you have bad breath, review how you keep your mouth and teeth clean. Try making lifestyle changes, such as brushing your teeth and tongue after eating, using dental floss, and drinking plenty of water. If you still have bad breath after making changes, see your dentist.
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This condition, also called halitosis, most often is caused by certain foods, health conditions and habits. Learn how to treat and prevent it.
07/23/2025
An abscess under your skin is easy to see. It may appear red, raised and swollen. The skin over the center of the abscess may be thin. It may look yellow or white because there’s pus underneath the surface of your skin. The abscess may feel tender and warm to the touch. Other symptoms of skin abscess include pain, fever, and chills.
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An abscess is a pocket of pus. Abscesses can form almost anywhere on your body. There are may different kinds of abscesses.
07/16/2025
Certain foods, health conditions and habits are among the causes of bad breath. In many cases, you can make bad breath better by keeping your mouth and teeth clean. If you can't solve bad breath yourself, see your dentist or another healthcare professional to be sure a more serious condition isn't causing it.
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This condition, also called halitosis, most often is caused by certain foods, health conditions and habits. Learn how to treat and prevent it.
07/09/2025
An abscess is a pocket of pus. Abscesses can form almost anywhere in or on your body. When you get an infection, your body's immune system kicks into action to try to fight it. White blood cells travel to the infected area and build up within the damaged tissue. This buildup leads to inflammation, which causes a pocket to form. The pocket fills with pus, creating an abscess. Pus is made up of living and dead white blood cells, germs, fluid and dead tissue.
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An abscess is a pocket of pus. Abscesses can form almost anywhere on your body. There are may different kinds of abscesses.
06/27/2025
Impaction of a wisdom tooth can be painful and sometimes causes infection. Brushing these teeth can be difficult. Food and bacteria can get stuck between the wisdom tooth and the tooth next to it, leading to tooth decay and gum infections called pericoronitis. Crowded wisdom teeth often lean sideways and rub against the cheek. This may cause ulcers on the cheek and chewing problems.
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Wisdom teeth that may cause problems are best taken out sooner rather than later.
06/20/2025
While you can have a crack in any of your teeth, cracks happen most often in your upper front teeth and the teeth in the back of your lower jaw (mandibular molars). Other names for cracked teeth are cracked tooth syndrome (CTS) and fractured tooth. There are several parts to your teeth, and you can have a crack in all of those parts.
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A sharp pain when you bite down on a tooth may mean you’ve cracked the tooth and it’s time to call your dentist. Learn more here:
06/13/2025
Wisdom teeth are the last molars that usually come through during your late teens or early 20s. Not everyone has wisdom teeth, and not all wisdom teeth cause problems or need to be removed. Some wisdom teeth can cause dental problems including overcrowding, impaction (wisdom teeth push into gums or another tooth) and cause decay and infection, leading to pain, difficulty chewing and bad breath. If wisdom teeth are causing problems to have them looked at by your oral health professional.
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Wisdom teeth that may cause problems are best taken out sooner rather than later.
06/06/2025
A cracked or fractured tooth may happen because you grind your teeth, injure a tooth or because you’re getting older. A cracked tooth may cause symptoms like pain and swelling. Your tooth may feel sensitive to changes in temperature. Your dentist has several ways to treat a cracked tooth. Treatment depends on where the crack’s location and severity.
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A sharp pain when you bite down on a tooth may mean you’ve cracked the tooth and it’s time to call your dentist. Learn more here:
05/30/2025
Dental fillings treat existing tooth decay and reduce the risk of future damage. Depending on the type of filling, fillings can strengthen weakened teeth, preserve your natural tooth structure, restore chewing function, enhance the appearance of your teeth, and fillings can last for a long time (10 to 20 years).
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A dental filling is something dentists use to repair a cavity. There are several filling materials, including silver amalgam, tooth-colored composite and porcelain.
05/23/2025
When used properly, fluoride is one of the best ways to strengthen your enamel and reduce your risk of cavities. Ask your dentist for product recommendations and how often you should get fluoride treatments.
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Fluoride is a mineral that naturally occurs in many foods and water. It helps reduce your risk of cavities when you use it at a safe level.
05/19/2025
Physical challenges and health struggles in friends and family can impact their mental health. Although we might not be able to change someone’s illness, we can change how they experience it. Take the time to share a meal, take a walk, or just listen—it can make a world of difference. 🌎💖
05/16/2025
Dental fillings help repair tooth cavities. Dentists use them to “fill in” areas of damage or decay. There are several types of fillings, including amalgam and tooth-colored options like composite resin and porcelain. Depending on the material used, some dental fillings can last up to 20 years.
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A dental filling is something dentists use to repair a cavity. There are several filling materials, including silver amalgam, tooth-colored composite and porcelain.
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Anchorage Project Access is a local replication of a national model that has proven to improve health outcomes and reduce emergency room charity care costs in many communities. Residing fiscally and administratively under the nonprofit structure of Christian Health Associates, the project was founded and brought to the implementation stage through the collaborative efforts of many community stakeholders, including the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, a group of local physicians, Providence Health System in Alaska Community Benefit Program, the Rasmuson Foundation, United Way of Anchorage, Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, The Foraker Group, Christian Health Associates, Municipality of Anchorage DHHS, Alaska Primary Care Association, State of Alaska DHSS, and Alaska Health Fair.
A physician-led initiative, APA and the volunteer provider network saw its first client in December 2005. Services provided by APA staff include all “back office” functions, such as enrollment, screening, and referral of patients to physicians; making patient appointments; phoning clients prior to appointments and ensuring access to transportation; maintaining physician relationships; providing physician recognition, and tracking and analyzing patient data.
The volunteer network provides the medical services, accepting and treating APA-referred patients as any other insured patients. Anchorage Project Access is founded on the premise that all participating patients have a primary care home. In addition to income eligibility, in order to receive services from APA, the patient must have a medical need. Patients must see their primary care provider, or be assigned and have a visit with one, before being referred to sub-specialty care: primary care physicians provide acute and chronic illness care. They refer to sub-specialty colleagues for consultation and interventions.
APA added the planned pharmacy component to the client services through an agreement with Carrs/Safeway pharmacies. Project Access patients receive medication assistance cards honored by Carrs/Safeway pharmacy (patients whose primary medical home is the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center receive their medications through the ANHC pharmacy program). The program uses a limited formulary, emphasizing generic medications, and limiting expenditures for any one participant to $800 per year for medications.
