A local family oral health advocate urges support for Florida's SMILES Act, which would expand dental services under the ...

Access is especially tough for kids in rural areas or whose families don't have a lot of money. Some dentists say a new ...

In the U.S., 27% of adults don’t have dental insurance, according to the most recent State of Or Equity in America by the ...

Many Kentucky dentists have stopped taking patients on Medicaid. The state's crop of dentists is shrinking, as more reach retirement age and fewer new dentists locate in Kentucky. Some counties in ...

Nearly half of New York’s 62 counties struggle with full or partial dental care shortages. Rural communities on average have four dentists per 10,000 people, while metro areas have nine dentists ...

Most of them get dental care through Medicaid, which contributes to their lengthy waits for care. Only one-third of dentists across New York accept Medicaid, the state and federal taxpayer ...

A team of dental providers volunteered at Iowa's Mission of Mercy, a large-scale, free dental clinic at Sioux City's Tyson Events Center in early October. Hundreds of patients received free ...

According to a 2022 study in the journal Medical Care Research and Review, only a third of dentists accept Medicaid. (Woerner says she supports an increase in Medicaid reimbursement rates for ...

Depending on the region, 55% to 70% of dentists say they don’t accept patients on Medicaid at all, according to the Oregon Health Authority. That makes finding a dentist a problem for low-income ...

and is one of the few that will accept MassHealth insurance, the state’s Medicaid plan. It also allows payments on a sliding scale, meaning that "no one is turned away for dental care,” said Bermudez, ...

Very few dentists accept Medicaid (for low-income patients), preventing the most vulnerable people in America from getting the dental procedures they need.” That’s what Sanders had to say in ...