New!! Updated data brief from the Partnership for Children’s Oral Health:
Dental Care among Children with MaineCare and Commercial Dental Benefits
2019 Update and 2016-2019 Trends In Dental Services
Highlights:
- Almost half of Maine children and youth under age 21 had either no dental coverage or had coverage for only part of the year.
- About 3 out of 10 children with year-long commercial dental benefits, and 4 out of 10 children with year-long MaineCare, had no claims for preventive dental care in 2019.
- Preventive dental care among Maine children with dental benefits peaks in elementary school aged children and declines through adolescence.
- The disparity in preventive dental care rates between publicly-insured and privately-insured children increases with age and varies widely across Maine’s counties.
https://www.mainecohn.org/assets/docs/databrief.pdf?p=publications/databrief.pdf