Report Highlights Maine's Unmet Dental Needs

Report Highlights Maine's Unmet Dental Needs: Maine is 80% fluoridated. "We think that we're in a bad place and we're about to go over a cliff," says former Maine House speaker Michael Saxl. ..

Saxl says Maine already has a dental crisis, and it's going to get worse if nothing is done. "We have this huge problem in Maine," he says. "Right now we have a dental crisis, we have a shortage of dentists and in the next 10 years, 40 percents of our dentists are over 55, and in the next 10 years we expect many of them to retire."