Baby Dental, Dental Insurance and Kids
One in four American children are born into poverty. According to studies children and adolescents living in poverty suffer twice as much tooth decay as their more affluent peers, and their disease is more likely to go untreated.
Children from families without medical insurance are 2.5 times less likely than insured children to receive dental care. Children from families without dental insurance are 3 times more likely than insured children to have unmet dental needs.
For every child without medical insurance, there are 2.6 who lack dental insurance.
Fewer than one in five Medicaid-covered children had a preventive dental visit during a recent year-long study.
