“You can work full time but not have the money to fix your teeth”
Dental care is being referred to as a visible reminder of the divide between rich and poor. As the distance between rich and poor grows in the United States, few consequences are so overlooked as the humiliating divide in dental care. High-end cosmetic dentistry is soaring, and better-off Americans spend well over $1 billion each year just to make their teeth a few shades whiter. As dental/health care providers, it is disturbing and unfortunate t
hat millions of people are resorting to charity clinics and hospital emergency rooms for last minute treatments of their painful and neglected teeth.
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