Where Are All The Dentists? By Kristin Lewis

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In “Where Are All The Dentists?”, Kristin Lewis reports that many people cannot access dental care, but some dentists are doing something about it. Millions of people in the United States do not have regular dental care, often because of the high price or that they don’t live in an area near any dental clinics. Places lacking dental offices are referred to as “dental desserts”, and in these places, it is often to expensive or inconvenient to travel many miles to see the dentist. Often, dentists work in highly populated suburban areas so they have more patients so they can be more successful, but the people in less populated areas need dentists, too! The new solution to this is mobile dental clinics. Whether they visit schools in “dental