Nadia Laniado
Nadia Laniado, DDS, MPH is the Director for Community Dentistry and Population Health at the North Bronx Healthcare Network, and a Fellow Ambassador at the New York Academy of Medicine.
Last week, a five year old who was in pain came to our dental clinic. He had to have all 20 of his baby teeth removed due to gross decay. Sadly, this is not an unusual occurrence. As a public health dentist working in a safety-net hospital in the Bronx, I think this is alarming, but not surprising.
The very vulnerable children and adults we see each day in the clinic mirror the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s sobering statistics that more than 100 million Americans are missing one or more of their teeth and that the most common chronic disease of childhood remains dental decay.
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