Vermont’s Oral Health Landscape Report Reveals Severe Workforce Shortages, Access Barriers, and Systemic Inequities
Vermonters are facing significant obstacles in accessing affordable, quality dental care, according to an Oral Health Landscape report released by Voices for Vermont’s Children on behalf of the Vermont Oral Health Equity Project. The report reveals critical, far-reaching issues, including severe workforce shortages, disparities in access, and systemic inequities, that prevent communities—particularly low-income, rural, and marginalized populations—from receiving essential oral health services.
Increasing access to oral health care in Vermont
Voices has long been concerned with health disparities that are masked by Vermont’s relatively good record on providing health care.
Schilling: Our Oral Health Crisis
Thousands of Vermonters go without needed dental care every single year — in 2011 and 2012, nearly 100,000 people didn’t get care.