Published May 30, 2012, 11:29 AM
The Oral Health Care Coalition of Dane County says there is an oral-health crisis and solutions are needed.
Focus group to seek dental-crisis solutions
Wisconsin NewsThe Oral Health Care Coalition of Dane County says there is an oral-health crisis and solutions are needed.
The Oral Health Care Coalition of Dane County says there is an oral-health crisis and solutions are needed.
The coalition says dental pain led to more than 11,000 emergency-room visits in one year, costing more than $1.5 million. That is deemed an expensive, inefficient and inappropriate use of resources because those visits results in treatment of the symptoms but not the problems causing the pain.
The coalition is calling for creation of a working group to explore solutions such as having emergency rooms refer people with dental problems to dentists who are willing to accept them as patients.
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