Washington—An estimated 3 million children will gain dental benefits by 2018 through health insurance exchanges, roughly a 5 percent increase over the number of children with private benefits currently, the Association said in a report on potential effects of the Affordable Care Act on dentistry.
Washington—Tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2013, could have “a chilling effect” on dental practices if not adequately addressed, the Association told the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee.
Washington—Members of Congress, two of them dentists, joined the Ad Council and The Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives Sept. 19 in pitching the first joint national multimedia public campaign for children’s oral health to a Capitol Hill audience.
