Baby Dental, CA children not seeing their dentist.
In California, nearly 25 percent of children have never seen a dentist. New studies show that the lack of dental care continues to be a significant problem for American children. Each year American children miss about 1.6 million school days due to dental disease.
In California, according to the study published in the journal Health Affairs, nearly 25 percent of children have never even seen a dentist. That the disparities exist across race, ethnicity and type of insurance when it comes to the duration between dental care visits.