Here are three colleges that are launching or expanding dental programs that Becker's has reported on since July 5:
1. Lynnwood, Wash.-based Edmonds College plans to launch a dental assistant program this fall, My Edmonds News reported.
2. Graham, N.C.-based Alamance Community College is planning to expand its dental assisting program to a facility at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry, which would make it the only such program in the area.
3. The University of New England's College of Dental Medicine in Portland, the only dental school in Maine, is increasing its capacity to meet demand for dental services, particularly in rural parts of the state.