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HEALTH: Dental assistant Adriana Martinez, newly hired by the Coastal Health Alliance, learns how to use equipment in the group’s van after it arrived in Point Reyes Station on Monday. The dental program follows up on a successful pilot program that ended months ago, and will start by treating low-income, uninsured and emergency patients.    David Briggs

A 39-foot van equipped to provide mobile dental service for the Coastal Health Alliance arrived in Point Reyes Station from Riverside on Monday, following months of delays. Stocked with two dental chairs, a waiting room and secured wireless Internet access for keeping records, the van is tentatively slated to hit the road the first week of March and will start offering dental care to Medi-Cal patients, uninsured patients and emergency cases up and down Marin’s…