Question:
Access to Dental Care ?
Answer:
Meanwhile, tooth problems often go unchecked because children lack insurance
coverage. Uninsured kids are two-and-a-half times less likely to get dental
checkups compared to kids with insurance. Experts estimate that as many as 26
million American children have no insurance coverage for dental care.
Even poor kids who have dental insurance are not getting the care they need,
the report said. The government estimates that 80 percent of Medicaid eligible
kids don't receive dental care because few dentists take Medicaid patients and
dental care isn't a priority for poor families.
``Low income kids have very high levels of coverage because of Medicaid, but
they have very few dentist visits,'' said Burton Edelstein, a pediatric dentist
and director of the Childrens' Dental Health Project in Washington.
The report, an amalgamation of clinical and epidemiological studies, also
looked at disparities in people suffering from oral and throat cancers, which
affects over 30,000 Americans each year and kills more than 8,000. Tobacco and
alcohol use are the primary risk factors for oral cancers.
Here here! in Maryland where I practice, which is one of the wealthiest
states in the nation ...Medicaid is abysmal..and reforms have done little to
improve it. In addition there is NO coverage for adults whatsoever...not
even the treatment of potentially life threatening oral infections....go
figure.
My 2 year old daughter has dark stain on her teeth.
The stain is not very hard and can be scratched away
(though not completely) with my finger nail. She doesn't
receive a proper brushing because she dislikes the
procedure. The teeth surely can be cleaned by a dentist,
and that is what our doctor suggests.
But my question is: what can cause the dark stain to
develop? Can this be a sign of some other disorder?
She is a healthy child and only visits doctors for
vaccinations.
Actually, I asked that question because I myself
have first hand experience with the dark stain.
I had it for several years in my twenties. Five years
ago, when I was 26 I changed my nutrition habits
towards more healthy food and the stain disappeared
together with some other disorders which were my primary
target. But I have only vague knowledge of correspondence
between the particular warning signs like the stain and
the hygienic mistakes that may cause them :-(
So we see that I was not quite that wrong with what I thought to be a
(however bad) JOKE.
I do not take the time to look after other peoplesī posting habits. Even
less so of people I never heard or read anything of. You are not quite
that important to me, you know.
Anyway, I guess I participate in this (and other) newsgroup(s) some more
years than you. Itīs not on you to remind me of any imaginary newsgroup
rules.
