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