Americans Turning to the ER for Dental Treatment.
According to researchers at the Pew Center on the States, Washington. More U.S residents are seeking out routine dental care in the emergency room. In the Pew report that was released it stated that many of the emergency visits involve trouble such as toothaches that could have been avoided with regular checkups but went untreated, in many cases this was because of a shortage of dentists, particularly those willing to treat Medicaid patients,