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Children, Teeth, and Arkansas

Friday, June 25th, 2010

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The Arkansas Department of Health has the Oral Health Coalition. This nonprofit organization promotes oral health measures, increases awareness and promotes dental health initiatives to prevent and control oral diseases.

One of its programs is the Mission of Mercy. Last year volunteers attended dentists and about two thousand people in Springdale offering free dental services.

Dr. Dwight Duckworth, of the Dental Association of the State of Arkansas, was responsible for the mission.
“Statewide the biggest problem with children’s dental health is the lack of access to a dentist,” she said.
He says that this is not so much the case in Northwest Arkansas as there are a significant number of dentists.

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