SUMMARY - Dental Care Access & Coverage
A child opens wide in the dentist's chair, her parents' insurance covering the cleaning and check-up that will keep her teeth healthy. Across town, another child has never seen a dentist, her family unable to afford the cost, her tooth pain treated with over-the-counter medication until the infection spreads. An elderly man in a nursing home has not had dental care in years, his teeth rotting, his ability to eat diminishing, his pain untreated because dental care is not part of long-term care.