by Jasmin Fernandes | Jun 25, 2024 | Press Release
A New CareQuest Institute Report Reveals Deep, Income-Based Health Disparities. Revealing deep health disparities based on income, a new CareQuest Institute for Oral Health® report shows that poorer families paid 7.4 times more in out-of-pocket expenditures for dental...
by Jasmin Fernandes | Jun 21, 2024 | In The News
CareQuest Institute for Oral Health’s mission is to improve the oral health of all. One way to achieve this is through programmatic initiatives, which train dental clinics to provide equitable, integrated and accessible care for their communities. The Community Oral...
by Jasmin Fernandes | Jun 21, 2024 | In The News
More than 56 million Americans reside in areas with a shortage of dental professionals, and over 68 million adults lack dental insurance, creating substantial barriers to accessing care.5 Marginalized populations are disproportionately affected by these shortages,...
by Jasmin Fernandes | Jun 20, 2024 | In The News
Integration between the medical and dental fields is still in the early stages, but these four leaders are looking to keep the momentum going. Here, four leaders of the dental industry share why they believe medical-dental integration is important and how the...
by Jasmin Fernandes | Jun 20, 2024 | In The News
On this episode of the ADHA Podcast host Matt Crespin sits down with Lisa Heaton, PhD, author of a recently published report from the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health on the tremendous amount of lost productivity as a result of dental issues. Dr. Heaton shares some...
by Jasmin Fernandes | Jun 18, 2024 | In The News
The CareQuest Institute, a nonprofit that focuses on equitable care, reports millions of Americans lost their dental insurance from Medicaid last fall, adding to the more than 68 million adults who don’t have dental insurance. Watch news clip and read full...