A UCLA study finds hundreds of community health clinics that serve California’s low-income families don’t offer important access to dental care – forcing many children and adults to go without.
Researchers from the UCLA Center for Health Policy studied 900 community health centers that serve nearly five million people statewide and found three out of five either don’t offer oral health services or offer it at a facility that is sometimes too far for many patients to reach.
That's a concern because people are more likely to get dental care when they’re able to see their dentist at the same place they go to see their primary care doctor, the study says.
Researchers point out that locations that offer patients medical and oral care together are essential to low-income Californians, who already face numerous barriers to getting health care. Among them: scheduling time off from work; finding child care and, in some cases, navigating numerous bus routes to get to and from appointments.
Treating dental care as an afterthought, the study says, can cause expensive medical problems that could otherwise be avoided.
Source: http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/10/05/54799/many-community-health-clinics-lack-dental-care-stu/
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