LOS ANGELES — A community clinic in Huntington Park has two dentists eager to come back to work — a coveted service for poor and uninsured patients who often go without dental care.
But dentists need dental assistants to prepare rooms, run X-rays and help with equipment. And so far, South Central Family Health Center has been unable to hire enough of them.
That amounts to more than 2,000 patients annually going without dental care they could otherwise have had, said David Roman, communications director for the center, which operates clinics from South L.A. to Cudahy.
