Question

Please answer the critical thinking question with at least 350 words. The question is: Many children and adults in the U.S. do not receive adequate preventative and therapeutic dental care. Why is this? What are some barriers to accessing oral health care, and how can they be overcome?

Answer 1

Oral health care is very significant for overall health condition of any individual. It is vital to have and maintain good oral hygiene regularly. Unfortunately most of the childrens and young adults in US are not taking care of thier oral health properly beacuse of the following reason;

• poor parental care to the children and adults because of the modern life styles
• childrens and young adults don't have proper knowledge regarding their oral health and
  hygiene
• childrens are waking up so lately in the morning and they are urged to go to schools, so
  most likely they are not taking care of their theeth and gums properly.
• childrens and adults are more prone to get oral problems because of eating more chocolates and sugar
  flavoured items.

American dental association has contributed so many plans and policy to improve oral care among every individual , Even though there are certain barriers to access oral health care, they are,

• Major barrier is financial ability . people with low income cant able to afford finance to access oral health care or they don't have enough money to visit dentist regularly.
• Most people in this country do not know the imporatance of oral hygiene, there is poor knowledge regarding the oral health
• There is a shortage in dental workforce, according to the report of 2009 the active dentist population were reduced for every one million population from 2010 to 2020
• There are some supply realted barriers.
• There is a defeciency in health insurance policy in terms of oral health and hygiene, the guarantee for this kind of insurance are very low.

So the practical way to overcome this barrier are as follows,

• Primarily every individual needs to be educated and gain knowledge reagarding oral hygiene and its benifits.
• Insurance policy are needs to be made more guarantee and cost effective
• Needs to improve more dentist workforce and professionaly active dentist
• Funds are to be collected and supplied to meet the financial barriers of every individual.