To improve health outcomes and reduce costs, policymakers, administrators, and advocates need data to understand access, costs, and outcomes by state. The State Oral Health Dashboard breaks down data for these 16 measures for each state:
- Adult Annual Dental Visits
- Adult Medicaid Enrollee Annual Dental Visits
- Adult Out-of-Pocket Dental Care Costs (> $500)
- Adult Population Without Dental Insurance
- Adults Deferred Dental Care Due to Cost
- Adults Missing 6+ Teeth
- Adults with Unmet Dental Needs
- Child Annual Preventive Dental Visits
- Child Medicaid Population with No Dental Visit
- Dental Need Met
- Extensiveness of Adult Medicaid Coverage
- Extensiveness of Adult Pregnancy Medicaid Coverage
- Medicaid Reimbursement
- Population with Fluoridated Water in Community Water Systems
- State Population
- Travel 30+ Minutes for Dental