The Pew Children's Dental Campaign

The Pew Children’s Dental Campaign is working to ensure that more children receive dental care and benefit from policies proven to prevent tooth decay. The problems affecting children’s dental health are severe.  Dental care is the single greatest unmet need for health services among children.

Learn more about dental health issues from experts, research and reports, Pew's newsroom, prevention, funding and how to get involved.

The Pew Children’s Dental Campaign works on four efficient, cost-effective solutions:

• ensure that Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program – the programs that serve  low-income children – work better for kids and for providers so that insurance coverage translates into real access to needed care
• expand sealant programs for kids who need them most
• help expand access to optimally fluoridated water
• expand the number of professionals who can provide dental care to low-income children

Take Action! Use this fact sheet to inform others in your state or community about the new dental health provisions in the new health care reform law.

Find out more about how we can provide dental health care to children who aren't getting it now.