WFSU Public Radio: Poor Access to Kids' Dental Care Costing Fla. Taxpayers
Florida, along with most U.S. states, is failing to prevent tooth decay in children in a key way, according to a report the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts released on Tuesday.
View ArticleWLRN Public Radio: Amazing Sealants Defeat Childhood Tooth Decay But Does...
Florida is missing a cheap and easy bet for improving the dental health of its children, according to a new survey from the Pew Charitable Trusts
View ArticleThe Times-Picayune: Report Gives Louisiana a 'D' for Quality of Dental Care...
Louisiana got poor marks for the availability of programs to provide crucial dental care to low-income children, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
View ArticleMilwaukee Journal-Sentinel: State Among 5 With High Grade on Child Dental...
Wisconsin is among the five states in the country with the most extensive programs to place dental sealants - plastic coatings applied to the chewing surface of molars to prevent tooth decay - in...
View ArticleThe Denver Post: More Colorado Kids Need Preventive Dental Care
Colorado, like most states, isn’t doing enough to prevent tooth decay in children, according to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts
View ArticleThe Gazette: Iowa Receives 'C' Grade in Dental Health Report
Iowa scores right in the middle in a new report that grades states on preventing tooth decay, according to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
View ArticleThe Patriot-News: Pennsylvania Gets a D for Programs to Prevent Tooth Decay...
Pennsylvania has received a D for its efforts to protect low-income children from tooth decay. The grade comes from the Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit that identifies problems within the states...
View ArticleKBIA Public Radio: Why Missouri Is Falling Short on Children's Dental Health
The Pew Charitable Trust recently released a report or oral health that didn’t speak too highly of Missouri. On an A through F scale, it gave the state a D for its efforts to provide access to dental...
View ArticleKING - NBC: Dental Problems a Leading Factor in School Absences
Dental problems are impacting attendance and grades in Pierce County schools (California), prompting county health officials to target the root of the problem.
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: More Calif. Adults Seek Dental Care at Hospital...
More Californians in recent years have sought dental care at emergency departments because of cuts to Medi-Cal dental benefits or the loss of private dental insurance, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
View ArticleHonolulu Civil Beat: Bill to Prevent Dental Decay at Hawaii Schools
And a recent Pew Center report gave the state an F for its efforts to prevent decay by improving access for low-income children to dental sealants — clear plastic coatings applied to the chewing...
View ArticleSun Journal: Caroline Zimmerman: Oral Health Access an Issue for Many Mainers
Dr. Michelle Mazur-Kary, president of the Maine Dental Association, wrote in her guest column (Feb. 3) about Maine’s “A” grade from the Pew Center on the States for dental sealants.
View ArticleHonolulu Star-Advertiser: Prior Exam Rule Hinders Prevention of Child Tooth...
We can improve oral health for Hawaii's children. And we should — because the numbers tell a disturbing story.
View ArticleConcord (N.H.) Monitor: Proposal to Expand Hygienists' Role Met With...
One year after New Hampshire lawmakers passed a bill expanding the role of some dental hygienists, another bill proposes further reform of the state’s oral health system.
View ArticlePolitico: 'Dental Therapists' Spark Debate
Some state lawmakers think they've found the solution to the nation's severe dental care access problem, but so far, only two states are using the touted "dental therapists" — and dentists aren’t...
View ArticleThe News Tribune: Fluoridation: Where the Real Tax Savings Are
Our editorial today argues for restoring Medicaid dental coverage for poor adults. That would cost the state something on the order of $30 million and the federal government more, since it would be...
View ArticleBaltimore Sun: Advocates, Insurers Duel Over Cost of Child Dental Coverage
Health advocates are concerned that new guidance from the Obama administration could make it more expensive for some low- and middle-income parents to pay for dental insurance for their children once...
View ArticleMinneapolis Star Tribune: Minnesota Dental Therapy Model Goes Nationwide
Christy Fogarty was certified Feb. 15 as the state’s first advanced dental therapist, which is reason to cheer unless you’re 7 year old Tia Seaberry. Tia, wearing pink sequined boots and bluejeans on a...
View ArticleWorking With Midlevel Providers: Dentists' Perspectives
Midlevel dental providers perform preventive care and routine restorative duties, such as filling cavities. Although they work in more than 50 countries, including Canada and Britain, Minnesota and...
View ArticleDental Therapists in New Zealand: What the Evidence Shows
This brief provides an overview of New Zealand’s use of dental therapists to provide care for children, and offers insights for U.S. policymakers about how midlevel providers can expand children’s...
View ArticleWater Fluoridation: Many Still Don’t Receive Its Benefits
Millions of Americans do not have access to fluoridated water in their communities, leading to higher rates of tooth decay and greater costs to taxpayers.
View ArticleIn Search of Dental Care
In Search of Dental Care examines the lack of access to dental care, especially for low-income children and families, in the United States. It also explores the strategies states are...
View ArticleDental Tribune: ADA, Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors,...
The Fluoridation Merit Award honored the Children's Dental Health Project and the Campaign for Dental Health for their efforts to maintain and expand the benefit of community water fluoridation.
View ArticleTampa Bay Times: Dental Care for Poor Florida Children Already Scarce, Could...
A Pew Charitable Trusts report last week gave Florida poor marks on dental care, especially for children.
View ArticleNortheast Indiana Public Radio: Dental Care Lacking for Hoosier Kids on Medicaid
A new study shows that in the most recent year for which data is available, 67 percent of Medicaid-enrolled Indiana children did not receive a dental visit – the third-highest percentage in the nation....
View ArticleWJHG-NBC 7: Florida's Low Income Children Lack Proper Dental Care
It is a sound most of us dread, the sound of the dental hygienist cleaning and poking at your teeth. But unfortunately, it is a sound many Florida children do not hear often enough. More than 75...
View ArticleWyoming Tribune-Eagle: State Lacks on Dental Care for Poor Kids
The Pew Charitable Trust recently published a study of access to dental care for low-income children. And access in Wyoming could get worse because so many dentists are old enough to retire, said Jane...
View ArticleThe Ledger: Many Polk Kids Lack Dental Care
Florida is among the worst in the nation at getting dental care to low-income children.
View ArticleNebraska Public Radio: Do Dental Shortages Affect Nebraskans?
A new study by the Washington-based Pew Charitable Trusts shows there are shortages of dentists across the nation. Those shortages are limiting the access to dental care for children, but that’s not...
View ArticleWFTV-ABC 9: 9 Investigates Pediatric Dental Failure
According to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts, Florida has an F rating when it comes to pediatric dental care, with only 25.7 percent of children on Medicaid receiving dental care.
View ArticleHuffington Post: Dental Divide Widens in U.S.
According to a recent report by The Pew Charitable Trusts, there are two distinct reasons for the inconsistent dental care available in the United States.
View ArticleHuntington Herald-Dispatch: State Makes Strides to Improve Kids' Oral Health
The introduction of the oral health program in the schools follows other steps in recent years. First, was coming up with an oral health plan for the state and beginning to implement strategies.
View ArticleWMOT Public Radio: Tenn. Dental ER Visits on the Rise, Office Visits Falling
A recent Pew Charitable Trusts study indicates Tennessee suffers from one of the worst dentist shortages in the nation and nearly half of dentists who do practice in the state are nearing retirement.
View ArticleNashua Telegraph: Proposal in State Senate Would Let Dental Hygienists...
State Sen. Peggy Gilmour, D-Hollis, said her ambitious legislation to let someone other than a dentist fill, clean and pull teeth would lower costs, expand access to care and make the profession more...
View ArticleSaintPetersBlog: Florida’s Public Health Dental Program, Scarce as Hen’s Teeth
Florida lawmakers have a lot to congratulate each other about as the state rises in national rank on numerous economic, employment, and health care factors. But access to oral health care is not one of...
View ArticleNew York Times: Oral Infections Causing More Hospitalizations
Last year, a Pew Charitable Trusts report estimated that preventable dental conditions, including abscessed teeth, were the primary reason for 830,590 emergency room visits in 2009 — a 16 percent...
View ArticleVoice of America: More Americans Turn to ER for Dental Care
The Pew Research Center released a study earlier this year that indicates the U.S. has a severe shortage of dentists.
View ArticleSlate: Fourteen Oddball Reasons You’re Not Dead Yet
When we think about why we’re still alive, some of the fairly obvious reasons that come to mind are vaccines, antibiotics, clean water, or drugs for heart disease and cancer. But the world is full of...
View ArticleContemporary Pediatrics: Would Dental Therapists in School-Based Clinics...
Given the gaps in dental care in this country, particularly in children, some advocates are pushing for the introduction of a midlevel provider called a dental therapist who would do most of the basic...
View ArticleTampa Bay Times: Brooksville City Council Votes to Restore Fluoride to Water...
The Brooksville City Council's 4-1 decision to resume fluoridation reversed a unanimous vote two years ago to end the city's 25-year-old fluoride program, a vote that came as the city attempted to...
View ArticleCNN: Dental Crisis Could Create 'State of Decay'
Obamacare expands access to health insurance for tens of millions of people come January 1. Dental care for adults, however, is not included, and experts say we've got a potential oral health care...
View ArticleGrowing the Dental Workforce
This report examines how community colleges and workforce investment boards can help to expand the dental team and improve access to care for millions of Americans. It also offers guidance on how these...
View ArticleCommunity College Daily: A Plan to Provide Affordable Dental Care
On Thursday, November 21, the Community College Times published an article about how community colleges can help increase access to care by developing educational programs for midlevel dental...
View ArticleStar Tribune: Health Beat: Dental Therapists Have CEO Smiling
On Saturday, December 14, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (MN) published a story about how dental therapists have helped a community health clinic in Minnesota provide dental services to low-income people...
View ArticleFluoridation By the Numbers
In 2012, 74.6% of the U.S. population on public water systems, or a total of 210,655,401 people, had access to fluoridated water, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. See how...
View ArticleExpanding the Dental Team
Expanding the Dental Team looks at two private dental practices that employ dental therapists to increase access to dental care for underserved populations.
View ArticleTestimony of the Pew Children’s Dental Campaign Regarding Fiscal Year 2015...
The Pew children’s dental campaign submitted this written testimony on funding priorities for federal fiscal year 2015.
View ArticleIs Your State a Winner When It Comes to Federal Support for Oral Health?
Twenty-one states received cooperative agreement grants and technical assistance from the CDC. States can save money by using these funds to operate programs that prevent cavities and promote oral health.
View ArticlePew Commends Maine for Authorizing Dental Hygiene Therapists
The Pew Charitable Trusts today commended the Maine legislature and governor for authorizing midlevel dental practitioners. These providers, who function similarly to a nurse practitioner or...
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