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Although adequate reimbursements alone are probably not enough to attract and keep medicaid dental providers, they are certainly one of the main factors. The ADA survey calls the fee inadequacy a “major impediment” to children’s access to oral health care. In November 2002, the National Governors Association (NGA) identified five states that had raised their children’s dental reimbursement rates based on fees charged by dentists in the private market. They were able to do so to a level that 70% to 85% of dentists considered to be the same as or greater than their usual fee. These states included Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Michigan, and South Carolina. NGA further reported that the 2001 Missouri legislature mandated that Medicaid reimburse dentists, dental hygienists, and pediatricians who provided fluoride treatments, cleanings, and sealants for Medicaid-eligible children in public health settings at 75% of the usual and customary charge.
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For decades, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommended that patients with certain heart conditions take antibiotics shortly before dental treatment. This was done with the belief that antibiotics would prevent infective endocarditis (IE), previously referred to as bacterial endocarditis. The AHA’s latest guidelines were published in its scientific journal, Circulation, in April 2007 and there is good news: the AHA recommends that most of these patients no longer need short-term antibiotics as a preventive measure before their dental treatment - Click here for more details
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CDA continues to stand by its position on the safety, efficacy and value of amalgam fillings to dental consumers. The Association recognizes that while dental amalgam contains mercury, current scientific evidence does not support the contention that the mercury contained in amalgam causes serious illnesses or disease.
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Many self-employed individuals and seniors don’t have a dental insurance plan available to them underwritten by a well known insurance company. The Dental for Everyone dental insurance plan available to association members solves this problem.
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