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From Lettuce Field to Dental Field: One Dental Hygienist Shows It Can Be Done

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

A career in dental hygiene is not without its challenges. But it usually doesn’t involve hefting 60- to 80-pound boxes of iceberg lettuce in the wee hours of a workday that could last 11 hours. That’s a reality for Central California’s seasonal agricultural workers, which at one time included Martina Hernandez Garcia, RDH. “He