Sunday, March 31, 2013

How to Save the World

Provide dental care and make children rinse their mouths at school.

Lack of dental services a factor in grades, attendance in CA schools
Hundreds of thousands of low-income children suffering from dental disease, some with teeth rotted to the gum line, are presenting California school districts with a widespread public health problem.
Increasingly, dental health advocates are looking to schools to help solve the crisis. Several school districts, including Oakland Unified, are running innovative programs to provide dental care at no cost to students.