Many Kids on Medicaid Don’t See Dentist: Study

<p>THURSDAY, Jun 7 (HealthDay News) — Only about one-third of U.S.
children on <span>Medicaid</span> receives <span>dental care</span> in a singular year, and how often
these kids see a dentist depends on where they live, a new study
finds.</p>
<p>In 2007, a superiority of visits to a dentist ranged from 12 percent
in Nevada to 49 percent in Vermont, nonetheless didn’t strech 50 percent in any
state or a District of Columbia, a researchers found.</p>
<p>The researchers also compared a 2007 commentary with information from five
years earlier.</p>
<p>“This investigate confirms with tangible paid <span>Medicaid claims</span> information that access
to <span>dental services</span> for Medicaid-eligible children has increasing 16 percent
nationally between 2002 and 2007, even nonetheless no state has nonetheless reached
even 50 percent access,” pronounced investigate co-author Dr. Allen Conan Davis, an...