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Increasing Use of Dental Services by Children, but Many Are Unable to Secure Needed Care

  • Waldman HB1
  • Ackerman MB2
  • Perlman SP3

1Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of General Dentistry, Stony Brook University, NY

2Developmental Biology, Harvard University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA

3Pediatric Dentistry, Boston University School of Dental Medicine Boston MA

DOI: 10.17796/jcpd.39.1.j677kp1584657r80 Vol.39,Issue 1,January 2015 pp.9-11

Published: 01 January 2015

*Corresponding Author(s): Waldman HB E-mail: h.waldman@stonybrook.edu

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Abstract

National studies indicate that an increasing proportion of children are receiving needed oral health care. However, this increase is not uniform throughout all populations of youngsters. Overall national study findings regarding the use of dental services mask the fact that, a significant subset of low-income, minority, medically and developmentally compromised and socially vulnerable children continue to lack access to care and suffer significant and consequential dental and oral disease. In addition, these same children will face continued difficulties in securing needed care as they reach their early adult years.

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dental visits, unmet needs, poverty, insurance, disability

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Waldman HB,Ackerman MB,Perlman SP. Increasing Use of Dental Services by Children, but Many Are Unable to Secure Needed Care. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. 2015. 39(1);9-11.

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