Advocacy
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No matter how much free care the dentists give, any problem won’t be solve by volunteerism. Charities are not a health care system. That’s why all the dental organizations and our colleagues in medicine and public health continuously advocate for repairing the broken system which is supposed to provide oral health care to all low-income and other disadvantaged populations.
The state dental society’s works constantly with their legislatures and health agencies to increase their funding for dental services in Medicaid and to raise awareness and the importance of oral health to overall health. Everyone has a stake in all this issue. All the pain from untreated dental decay results in lost school and work hours.