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Wisconsin is 90% fluoridated but has a dental shortage because the need for oral health care is so great. "A $200,000 study a state commission approved Wednesday to find a solution to the shortage of dentists in northern Wisconsin could recommend that a dental school be built in Marshfield."
“I don’t want to meet any more Vietnam veterans like the one who had to pull his own abscessed tooth because he couldn’t see a dentist,” said Sen. Senator Robert Jauch, D-Poplar, whose legislation secured funding in the 2009-11 state budget for the study.
Wisconsin is 90% fluoridated but has a dental shortage because the need for oral health care is so great. "A $200,000 study a state commission approved Wednesday to find a solution to the shortage of dentists in northern Wisconsin could recommend that a dental school be built in Marshfield."
“I don’t want to meet any more Vietnam veterans like the one who had to pull his own abscessed tooth because he couldn’t see a dentist,” said Sen. Senator Robert Jauch, D-Poplar, whose legislation secured funding in the 2009-11 state budget for the study.
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