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Expanding California’s Dental Team to Care for Underserved Children: New Times, New Solutions

 By Jenny Kattlove | November 2011

dental_workforce_thumbnailThis Brief provides an overview of the challenges faced by California's children and their families in obtaining necessary dental care and outlines a workforce innovation designed to bridge the supply gap between existing providers and California's most vulnerable children. This Brief also provides a proposal for action, laying out a practical solution to help California's state and community leaders ensure children get the dental care they need and to make real the promise of health care reform.

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DO YOU KNOW?

An estimated 17 million low-income children in America go without dental care each year.

(Source: The Pew Center on the States, The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children: California)


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