Floridians for Dental Access is a bipartisan coalition of individuals and organizations throughout our state actively working to increase access to oral health care through evidence-based best practices in modern dentistry and dental hygiene.
“What is wrong with this country? If a child has a broken arm, we fix it. Yet virtually every day I see children walking around with dental infections that are literally inches from their brain.”
– Betty Kabal, Director of Dental Outreach, North Florida Medical Centers
COVID-19. Toxic blue-green algae. Asthma. Monkey Pox. Hardly a day goes by without a public health challenge making headlines in Florida. A growing, yet often unnoticed, public health crisis is the rotten state of many Floridians’ teeth and gums. Oral
By Frank Catalanotto, DMD. There’s nothing to smile about in Florida this February, which is National Children’s Dental Health Month. The state of children’s oral health in Florida is abysmal, indeed some would say in crisis. The latest data clearly
Communities across Florida are struggling with chronic dental access shortages and serious consideration is needed regarding widespread improvements. Poor oral health resulting from dental access shortages have risen to public health crisis levels. Florida leads the nation in the number
Floridians for Dental Access is a bipartisan coalition of individuals and organizations throughout our state actively working to increase access to oral health care through evidence-based best practices in modern dentistry and dental hygiene.
