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Dental insurance, caregivers' preventive dental visits determinants of underserved

03-20-2007 · EurekAlert!

Children's dental insurance and caregivers' preventive dental care visits play a significant role as determinants of underserved African-American children seeing a dentist, according to a study in this month's Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA).

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