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At the end of the first week of the 2024 General Assembly session, the House Health and Government Operations Committee had been assigned dozens of bills involving changes to Maryland’s health system.
State health officials and dental health advocates say that Baltimore and parts of the Eastern Shore and Western Maryland not only lack dentists, but have other barriers that make it difficult for residents to keep up with their oral health.
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Providing the means to allow more low-income adults to see a dentist can address - and prevent - serious health crises.
Each workgroup worked under the task force’s previously established framework to identify barriers to dental care for their respective populations.