Despite Fluoridation Millions Of Americans Don't Get The Dental Care They Need | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR

Why Millions Of Americans Don't Get The Dental Care They Need | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR: Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis Sullivan says, "As many as one-third on average of poor children have dental caries. And in some populations, it's almost half. So we have a preventable problem and a problem that could lead to much greater disease as we have all seen with the unfortunate case of Deamonte, the young sir who had a dental cavity, became an abscess, ruptured into his brain, and he died from meningitis.That unfortunately is not the only such case like that. "

Nearly 100% of Adults get Cavities: FDI World Dental Federation Report

Nearly 100% of Adults Tolerate Dental Caries According to FDI World Dental Federation Report: US Research Company Gallup’s latest released figures indicate that many adults suffer from dental caries and almost one- third of the US population do not visit dentist once a year, although this is recommended. As a result of a dental visit problem, approximately 164, 179,700 hours of work were lost according to the Oral Health, US 2002 Annual Report.