Tag: dental health
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Huge infographic offers facts about Kentucky’s oral health
The Kentucky Oral Health Coalition, a project of Kentucky Youth Advocates, recently released an infographic “Word of Mouth: The Importance of Oral Health in Kentucky” to offer some general awareness...
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More dental patients using ERs, showing lack of dental coverage, shortage of dentists and the stepchild status of oral health
More patients are going to hospital emergency rooms for dental care, illustrating how oral health remains the stepchild of the health system despite health-care reform. “An analysis of the most...
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UK students in national program to educate kids about oral health
A University of Kentucky undergraduate dental group was recently spotlighted by the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation for their passion to share oral-health education with elementary and middle schools in...
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New partnership will provide children in Kentucky with a home for medical and dental care
Community Dental of Kentcky and the University of Louisville Pediatrics are partnering to provide Kentucky children in the Medicaid program with a medical, dental health care home through co-located facilities, says...
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State gives 5 health departments money for mobile dental-hygiene teams that will examine children at schools; 5 more next year
Using new money in the state budget, the state Department for Public Health has given five local health departments grants to launch mobile dental hygiene programs. The one-year awards of $160,000...
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Less than 60% of Kentuckians say they visited a dentist in the past year, ranking the state 43rd in the nation
Kentucky ranked 43rd among the 50 states in percentage of people who told pollsters that they had visited a dentist in the past 12 months. The rankings in the annual...
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Health reform law isn’t as sweeping when it comes to dental coverage, but Appalachian dentists say it should help
Dr. Heather Whitt explains costs to Anita Slone at the Eula HallHealth Center in Floyd County. (C-J photo by Jessica Ebelhar) In Floyd County, almost 40 percent of adults have...
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Group overseeing effort to make state healthier hears of ‘dire need,’ tools for improvement
Kentucky’s health is “in dire need of improvement,” but the state has some tools to do that, including health-care reform and the insurance program for its own employees, the group...
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One of every three Kentucky adults didn’t see a dentist last year; key factors are overall health, insurance and income
More than a third of Kentucky adults say they didn’t go to a dentist last year, and one in six said they hadn’t in five years or more, according to...
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Beshear lays out plan for improving Kentucky’s health, with specific goals and largely administrative strategies
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Steve Beshear set seven specific, numerical goals Thursday for improving Kentucky’s “dismal” health status, which he said is hurting the state’s education, productivity,...