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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Medicaid and Children’s Dental Care

Many kids on Medicaid don’t see dentist, By Steven Reinberg, June 7, 2012, U.S. News & World Report: “Only about one-third of U.S. children on Medicaid receives dental care in a single year, and how often these kids see a dentist depends on where they live, a new study finds. In 2007, the prevalence of visits to the dentist ranged from 12 percent in Nevada to 49 percent in Vermont, but didn’t reach 50 percent in any state or the District of Columbia, the researchers found. The researchers also compared the 2007 findings with data from five years earlier…”