Access to Dental Care

Access to dental care still a problem for low-income people in Wisconsin, By Guy Boulton, February 9, 2015, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “One day after Monica Hebl of Burleigh Dental in Milwaukee returned from a nine-day dental mission to Haiti last month, she saw a child with several serious infections who needed to have four teeth pulled. Some of child’s teeth were black. ‘I was just blown away,’ said Hebl, a former president of the Wisconsin Dental Association. The child’s dental condition was symptomatic of a problem that doesn’t seem to be getting much better: Scant progress has been made in improving access to dental care among low-income people in Wisconsin…”