Monday, October 19, 2009

Medicaid recipients search for dental care-wvpubcast.org

Medicaid recipients search for dental care-wvpubcast.org: "For many of the state’s 390,000 Medicaid recipients, the difficulty in finding a dentist is hitting the crisis stage.

Twelve thousand patients from a four county region travel the narrow rural roads to Oceana, W.Va., population 1550, for dental care"

"Moore and Brown are among the very few [dentists] who do not limit the number of Medicaid patients they’re willing to see."

West Virginia is 92% fluoridated.