While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.
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Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.
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.
I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.
Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.
Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
Most every dental school has discount dental services.
One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.
Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.
We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.