Primary care clinicians the missing link in oral health disparities - The Clinical Advisor

"ECC is a public-health crisis, according to Gonsalves. Although actual disease prevalence is relatively low, affecting about 5% U.S. children, it disproportionately affects those that are low income, with a prevalence rate ranging from 30% to 50% in this population. To put it in perspective, 80% of decay occurs in 20% of the nation's children."

Primary care clinicians the missing link in oral health disparities - The Clinical Advisor: