Putting Teeth in Health-Care Reform: Advocates Pursue Dental Issues - washingtonpost.com
Putting Teeth in Health-Care Reform: Advocates Pursue Dental Issues - washingtonpost.com:
"The death of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver [who lived in a fluoridated area] a few miles from the Capitol reminded lawmakers of the disparities that dental-care advocates had been warning about for years. One of these was David Satcher, who as U.S. surgeon general in 2000 called oral disease a 'silent epidemic' afflicting millions of minority and low-income Americans."
"The death of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver [who lived in a fluoridated area] a few miles from the Capitol reminded lawmakers of the disparities that dental-care advocates had been warning about for years. One of these was David Satcher, who as U.S. surgeon general in 2000 called oral disease a 'silent epidemic' afflicting millions of minority and low-income Americans."
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