Dental clinics provide oral care for low-income families

After 65 years of water fluoridation in the US, "Approximately two thirds of children who come from low-income families in the U.S. and are between the ages of 12 and 19 have tooth decay, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"

Dental clinics provide oral care for low-income families:

WA Children Teeth Dental Alarm

WA Children Teeth Dental Alarm: Australia is mostly fluoridated:

"dental decay among the pre-school group was common, with the city's six paediatric dentists each operating on children under anaesthetic three times a week.

'On little pre-schoolers we do little crowns and fillings, extract teeth and do all that sort of stuff,' Dr Gregory said.

'I probably do about six children a week and these are extensive cases where children have eight to 10 cavities.'"

Watch Your Mouth:� The Link Between Oral and General Health / WCPN.org

Cleveland, Ohio has been fluoridated for decades: "In the greater Cleveland area we’ve looked at thousands of head start children ages 3 to 5 and we’ve found that 45% of these children have early childhood decay."

Watch Your Mouth:� The Link Between Oral and General Health / WCPN.org

Uninsured rate rises | Chattanooga Times Free Press

Tennessee is 91% fluoridated: "The dental clinic, which mostly does pain management and tooth extractions, has seen volume rise from 300 patients per month to more than 400 starting in 2009, said coordinator Allison Taylor. Often, the patients work part time and don’t have benefits, and lately many have been laid off and lost their insurance, she said.

Many are in severe pain, she said.

“Everybody that walks in the door is not poverty-stricken. They’re just in a bad situation at that point in time,” she said. “People drive up in these nice cars and say, ‘Hey, we just don’t have insurance. I just cannot afford $200 to $300 when I walk in the door’” at a dentist’s office.

Even for those do have insurance, high-deductible plans that require big out-of-pocket payments can put some services out of reach, Bond said"

Uninsured rate rises | Chattanooga Times Free Press:

Army plan aims to change way you eat, drink - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times

After 65 years of water fluoridation, tooth decay is plaguing the US Army.

"since 2002, we have indicators across the board that our dental rates are really having some challenges. Specifically, 32 percent of new soldiers in 2002 were classified as dental category 3 or 4, meaning they were nondeployable until the issue was addressed. By 2009, that number had jumped to 58 percent."

Army plan aims to change way you eat, drink - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times

Health / WCPN.org

84% of Ohio is fluoridated, Yet, "almost half of elderly Ohioans have lost teeth to gum disease or decay"

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Dentists provide free treatment for needy patients in Lansing | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State Journal

Lansing, Michigan is fluoridated: "Proof of the [dental] need was in the length of the line in the morning. People stretched up the stairs from the basement clinic at 5135 S. Pennsylvania Ave., out the door and almost to the street."

"The six volunteer dentists and team of assistants saw 110 patients by the end of the day and had pulled 262 teeth. They remained open after the 5 p.m. close, because people still needed to been seen."

Dentists provide free treatment for needy patients in Lansing | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State Journal:

The worst thing to come out of children's mouths - Lifestyle - Style - Wellbeing - The Advocate

About 75% of Australia is fluoridated: "Children as young as four are having all of their baby teeth removed because of poor oral health, dentists say.

Hundreds of youngsters - some yet to attend school - are forced to undergo surgery to have rotting teeth removed or root canal.

In the worst cases, children are put on intravenous antibiotics to save their lives."

"The Australian Dental Association says five per cent of Australian children have extensive early childhood caries (decay or crumbling of a tooth)."

"We don't really know if [the five per cent figure] is the full extent of things because if you never see children, you never know what's really going on," Dr Sawyer said."

"You ask any public health service, they've seen really decayed [children's] teeth. It's not unusual that they have to take out all 24 baby teeth."

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Low-cost dental work in demand | livingstondaily.com | Livingston Daily

Michigan is 90% fluoridated: "There's so much need — really, an incredible need — for dental care in our area," said Kellogg. "There are so many patients we see that have dental issues that are so painful, they just stay home. There's such a need, with people losing their insurance or even their jobs."

"An elderly couple who can't afford dental care. An unemployed landscaper with no dental insurance. A factory worker on disability. A young couple who used to live the good life and had to cut back on everything when the husband, a bank executive, lost his job.

This was a snapshot of the more than 150 people who lined up for open enrollment at the nonprofit VINA Community Dental Center in Brighton on Monday morning. A large crowd always shows up for the enrollment, which happens a few times a year and is the first step to becoming a patient, but VINA officials said Monday's turnout was the largest since the clinic opened September 2008."

At a free dental clinic in Howell on Saturday, two dentists were able to treat 70 of the 350 people who showed up.

At both events, people lined up early. Residents camped overnight outside the office of Dr. Tom Kellogg, and people began arriving at 1:30 a.m. Monday for the VINA enrollment.

Low-cost dental work in demand | livingstondaily.com | Livingston Daily:

Hundreds flock to White Lake for free dental care: 125 uninsured patients get relief and one says it saved her life | MLive.com

"Hundreds flock to White Lake for free dental care: 125 uninsured patients get relief and one says it saved her life"

Muskegon is fluoridated and so is 90% of Michigan.

Hundreds flock to White Lake for free dental care: 125 uninsured patients get relief and one says it saved her life | MLive.com:

Veterans Get Free Dental Care - News Story - WLWT Cincinnati

"The Cincinnati Dental Society estimated that less than 10 percent of U.S. veterans are eligible to receive dental benefits, and many fall through the cracks.

'A lot of these guys cycle though the emergency room for infections, and they knock the infection down with antibiotics then, they come back two months later never having the source of the infections taken care of,' said Dr. Ken Brandt, one of the dentists who volunteered their time on Saturday." Cincinnati is fluoridated.

Veterans Get Free Dental Care - News Story - WLWT Cincinnati:

Interview: Delta Dental Contest | WHAS11.com | Louisville news, Kentucky news & breaking news | WHAS11.com | News for Louisville, Kentucky

"Kentucky is among the worst states in the nation for tooth decay and tooth loss, even among children." Kentucky has mandated fluoridation since 1977.

Interview: Delta Dental Contest | WHAS11.com | Louisville news, Kentucky news & breaking news | WHAS11.com | News for Louisville, Kentucky:

Interview: Delta Dental Contest | WHAS11.com | Louisville news, Kentucky news & breaking news | WHAS11.com | News for Louisville, Kentucky

"Kentucky is among the worst states in the nation for tooth decay and tooth loss, even among children." Kentucky mandates fluoridation

Interview: Delta Dental Contest | WHAS11.com | Louisville news, Kentucky news & breaking news | WHAS11.com | News for Louisville, Kentucky:

New bid to cut tooth decay in children - Health & Beauty, Lifestyle - Herald.ie

"A NEW Irish research project hopes to address the alarmingly high rate of tooth decay among pre-schoolers." Ireland is the only country that requires fluoridation.

New bid to cut tooth decay in children - Health & Beauty, Lifestyle - Herald.ie:

Virginia is 95% fluoridated: "'People have showed up here the night before, and camped out in the parking lot,' said Dr. McAvoy.

He says it's a sign of the hard economy and shows just how many are struggling with little to no dental insurance.

'Dentistry is so important, but it is so often overlooked because people feel like they can't afford to do it or they're afraid,' said Cari Zello, Office Manager of Forest Dental Center.

At, last year's event they treated more than 200 patients that's $68,000 dollars worth of dentistry."

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Recent dental clinic a step in the right direction - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com

Despite decades of state-mandated fluoridation in Illinois, "Dental care is hard to come by, either because people can't afford it or they can't find dentists willing to accept patients on Medicaid...At some point, as the numbers show, Illinois needs to improve the state's system of providing dental care."

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