Dental care isn’t being discussed in America’s healthcare debate,a surprising revelation given the numbers: Roughly 50 million Americans live in places where it’s difficult to gather routine dental care, and even for those that do, or dental care pricing and insurance is a complicated web of exceptions and state laws that leave about one third of Americans with barriers to proper care.
So journalist Mary Otto,author of "Teeth: The epic of Beauty, Inequality, or the Struggle for verbal Health in America," traveled around the country to see the state of America’s dental care for herself. She says what she found is a public health crisis.
This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org