The Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee recently held a hearing to discuss the lack of access to dental care in rural Pennsylvania, the Franklin County Free Press reported June 20. Six notes ...

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

Most dentists who do practice in Florida aren't regularly treating patients with low incomes because they don't accept ...

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 ...

Access is especially tough for kids in rural areas or whose families don't have a lot of money. Some dentists say a new statewide ban on adding fluoride to drinking water affects these communities the ...

Not long ago, Dr. Suzanne Fournier saw a 16-year-old patient with a swollen face and difficulty breathing. Fournier, a dentist who practices at an urban hospital in Louisiana, had to extract six ...

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 ...