Pew’s Children’s Dental Campaign promotes policies to expand dental care for America’s children. We conduct and commission research to define issues, identify solutions, and assess how states are responding to dental care challenges. We work with professionals with extensive expertise in dental health policy at the state and national levels.
Reports, testimony, and other materials by Pew’s dental experts are helping to drive policy changes in a number of states.
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Fact Sheets: The State of Children's Dental Health
In the face of major budget shortfalls, 22 states were able to improve their dental polices from 2010. See how all the states did in our collection of state factsheets. more
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Children's Dental Health
Pew assessed and graded all 50 states and the District of Columbia, using an A to F scale, on how well they are employing eight proven and promising policy approaches to strengthen dental health and access to care for disadvantaged children. more
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Preventing Dental Disease
Community water fluoridation and sealant programs go a long way in protecting teeth from developing cavities, the most common cause of more severe dental health problems.
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Funding Children's Dental Care
The Pew Children’s Dental Campaign is partnering with dental provider associations, consumer groups and children’s advocates at the state and federal levels to increase federal support for Medicaid and CHIP and ensure federal requirements make it easier for states to operate successful dental programs. more
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Expanding the Dental Workforce
The Pew Children’s Dental Campaign is forming partnerships with states to expand dental care for children by adding new types of dental professionals. more
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December 13, 2010
Dental Care Remains Largest Unmet Health Need
Hiring new types of providers can be a win-win for private dental practices, allowing them to serve more low-income children while maintaining their financial bottom line. more
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It Takes A Team
This 2010 report was the first to examine the impact that hiring new types of dental providers—dental therapists and hygienists-therapists—could have on both the productivity and profits of a private dental practice, where more than 90 percent of the nation’s dentists work.
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Expanding Children's Access to Dental Care: The Minnesota Story
This 2010 brief explained how advocates campaigned successfully for a law licensing new dental providers, and the lessons this campaign offers to policy makers who want to expand dental coverage to underserved children in their state. more
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Washington's ABCD Program
This 2010 Pew Center on the States report looked at how dental care remains the greatest unmet need for health services among children.
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The Cost of Delay
An estimated one in five children go without dental care each year. States play a key role in ensuring that low-income children have access to basic, preventive dental care. This 2010 report, The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children, found that two-thirds of states are doing a poor job. The report was produced by the Pew Center on the States with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the DentaQuest Foundation.
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