Our Teeth Are Making Us Sick

America's dental problem...

Adding a filling.

As Americans debate medical coverage, the problem of our teeth has remained almost entirely unaddressed, Zoe Greenberg reports on nytimes.com.

About 114 million Americans don’t have insurance coverage for their teeth – more than twice the number of people who didn’t have health insurance before the Affordable Care Act, Greenberg wrote.

“Oral health is a neglected issue nationally,” said Julia Paradise, an associate director of the program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at the Kaiser Family Foundation. “This is a big problem. The mouth and the head – mental health and dental health – somehow remain outside of what people think of as general health,” Greenberg added.

For more of Greenberg's report: https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/kristof/2017/05/23/our-teeth-are-making-us-sick/?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/

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