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. "