{"id":239379,"date":"2026-07-24T05:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-dentists-reject-kmpdc-plan-to-let-non-dentists-offer-dental-care\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T05:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:52:14","slug":"kenya-dentists-reject-kmpdc-plan-to-let-non-dentists-offer-dental-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-dentists-reject-kmpdc-plan-to-let-non-dentists-offer-dental-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Dentists Reject KMPDC Plan to Let Non-Dentists Offer Dental Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Dental Association (KDA) has threatened legal action against the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC), accusing the regulator of unlawfully seeking to allow unqualified individuals to perform dental procedures that should be reserved for licensed dentists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a statement issued on Thursday, the association condemned what it described as the publication of a purported scope of practice that authorizes non-dentists to provide dental care services, warning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230737.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Dental Association (KDA) has threatened legal action against the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC), accusing the regulator of unlawfully seeking to allow unqualified individuals to perform dental procedures that should be reserved for licensed dentists. In a statement issued on Thursday, the association condemned what it described as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5732,24973,16368,4688,430,36914,257,54930,10280,7586,6654,254],"class_list":["post-239379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-care","tag-dental","tag-dentists","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kmpdc","tag-news","tag-nondentists","tag-offer","tag-plan","tag-reject","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}