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Many Kids Are Struggling To Get Dental Care, Bloomfield Nonprofit Says - Bloomfield, NJ - KinderSmile Foundation: "Deep inequities" in dental care are plaguing kids across New Jersey – and the rest of the nation.

Periodontal disease, dental caries and high number of missing teeth was associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to researchers.

“Oral health is integral to overall health and well-being,” Cardin said Wednesday at the year’s first hearing of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care subcommittee, which he chairs. “It can make worse an underlying health condition, impacting overall healthcare costs. It can impact a person’s ability to get a job and be well enough to work. It impacts a person’s ability to go to school, impacting the local and national economy.”

It was the tragic story of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver — a boy who died from an untreated tooth infection that spread lethal bacteria to his brain — that first compelled

Providing the means to allow more low-income adults to see a dentist can address - and prevent - serious health crises.

If you do not have private or public dental insurance, do not drink fluoridated water at home, can't afford to pay out of pocket for dental care, or can't get time off from work to take your child to the dentist, keep an eye on the amount of added sugar you give your child during and even after the holidays. Because unplanned urgent dental results in over 34 million lost school hours in the United States, complications due to cavities such as pain and suffering, preventable OR visits, ...

Incorporating preventative oral health into primary care can improve a childs physical well-being, a government report found.

It is only when local communities based on personal interactionfail to provide for people's needs that government responsibilitycomes into play. Even in such cases, policy should acknowledge theresponsibility that such institutions as families, neighborhoods,and churches have for their members and remove barriers anddisincentives for them to act in personal ways to solve problems.

Democrats are making health care worse for America's veterans by giving away insurance benefits instead of boosting their actual care.

Democrats insist that further tinkering with health care will make it more accessible, but evidence suggests it will cost people dearly.