In December, the chief public health officer approved six smaller communities to resume dental services, but many in Jacobson's region are going without, he said. Timeline of dentistry services during pandemic March 2020: Indigenous Services Canada tells the N.W.T. government relaxes its rules to allow dental services to resume services in health centres that could meet COVID-19 guidelines. Green also said that Indigenous Services Canada were responsible for initially suspending services. In communities that still lack dental services, the Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) program will pay to transport recipients to access dental services in the interim, they wrote.

Source: CBC News March 09, 2021 09:56 UTC