New Report: Lower-Income Families Spend 7 Times More on Dental Care Than Wealthier Families
Dentistry Today
JUNE 26, 2024
Revealing deep health disparities based on income, a new CareQuest Institute for Oral Health report shows that poorer families paid 7.4 times more in out-of-pocket expenditures for dental care compared to high-income families between 2007 and 2021. At the same time, families living in poverty and those with lower incomes were less likely to have visited a dentist in the past year compared to families with higher incomes in the US.
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