Oral Health Care: Addressing Barriers to Access (Atlanta)

Oral health care: many people want to to visit the dentist but face too many barriers. In Atlanta, in can be a 10-mile trip to get there. There's also the fear of ending up with costly bills.
These barriers combined with larger societal barriers like a shortage of dentists, low Medicaid reimbursement rates, and an unwillingness of dentists to participate in Medicaid, it became clear to Dr. Charles Moore that we needed a larger solution than exams out of the back of his Subaru.
Dr. Moore and his Clinical Scholars team members Dr. Hope Bussenius and Dr. David Reznik led community based change to tackle this wicked problem and build a Culture of Health.
Read how in their free chapter of Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US - Experiences in Developing the Team and Impacting the Community: www.intechopen...