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Dental Health Foundation

Oral diseases are progressive and cumulative and become more complex over time.
They affect economic productivity and compromise our ability to work and learn. And yet, most people believe that oral health is less important than and separate from overall health. Improving the nation’s oral health requires a focused attention, equivalent to that given to important public health issues such as obesity and asthma.
Dental decay is the most prevalent, yet most preventable, infectious disease.
The 2000 Surgeon General’s report, Oral Health in America, called it a “silent epidemic… disproportionately affecting our most vulnerable citizens.” The report urged policymakers, community leaders, private industry, health professionals, the media and the public to take action. This call is particularly important in California where our children’s oral health has been found to be substantially below that of most other states.
Editorial, Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2006
It's hard to believe that an epidemic of dental disease could exist in a place like California, the global epicenter of teeth-whitening ads and million-dollar smiles. But the rotten truth, according to a report released last week by the Dental Health Foundation, a nonprofit public health advocacy group, is that tooth decay is emerging as the most serious health crisis facing California's children.

Our Vision is Oral Health For All

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