Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:25 p.m.

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Graduate, professional students lobby for student dental insurance

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Drilling, bad-tasting fluoride and sore jaws aside, some Yale students would still like to be able to go to the dentist’s office more often.

Since early last semester, members of Yale’s graduate- and professional-school organizing bodies have been working to convince University administrators of the need for student dental insurance, which is currently not included in the Yale Health Plan. But even as they gear up this semester to circulate a petition among graduate students and intensify their lobbying efforts, administrators — who cited cost as the primary obstacle — said it...

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