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I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student.

Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.