Explanation for RLLD's teeth!

[Snoopy1 0]

In spite of efforts to change the system, fewer than one in three children in Maryland's Medicaid program received any dental service at all in 2005

 

 

Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.

A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.

If his mother had been insured.

f his family had not lost its Medicaid.

If Medicaid dentists weren't so hard to find.

If his mother hadn't been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.

 

By the time Deamonte's own aching tooth got any attention, the bacteria from the abscess had spread to his brain, doctors said. After two operations and more than six weeks of hospital care, the Prince George's County boy died.

 

Deamonte's death and the ultimate cost of his care, which could total more than $250,000, underscore an often-overlooked concern in the debate over universal health coverage: dental care.

[Kozz 0]

In spite of efforts to change the system, fewer than one in three children in Maryland's Medicaid program received any dental service at all in 2005

Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.

A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.

If his mother had been insured.

f his family had not lost its Medicaid.

If Medicaid dentists weren't so hard to find.

If his mother hadn't been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.

 

By the time Deamonte's own aching tooth got any attention, the bacteria from the abscess had spread to his brain, doctors said. After two operations and more than six weeks of hospital care, the Prince George's County boy died.

 

Deamonte's death and the ultimate cost of his care, which could total more than $250,000, underscore an often-overlooked concern in the debate over universal health coverage: dental care.

 

 

I live here in DC. Purely the mother's fault. She could have taken him to the ER for free dental care long before it became life threatening. Also, she could not come up with $80? SHe has been arrested and has a criminal record as well. This is what happens when you have negligent parents. You can blame the state for all of this, but a competent parent would have gone to the ER or Dental School for free care, or treated him first before his brother.....

[Snoopy1 0]

I live here in DC. Purely the mother's fault. She could have taken him to the ER for free dental care long before it became life threatening. Also, she could not come up with $80? SHe has been arrested and has a criminal record as well. This is what happens when you have negligent parents. You can blame the state for all of this, but a competent parent would have gone to the ER or Dental School for free care, or treated him first before his brother.....

 

Hey, champ, settle down. I didn't assign any blame to anyone.

[Kozz 0]

Not worked up at all.....

 

A good number of people are trying to claim its society's fault this happened........ Most people just attribbute it to a negligent parent. But there are always those people that think this mother had no blame at all in this.

[edjr 6,580]

I had an abscess tooth when I was 18.

 

It hurt so bad and I was in so much pain I tried pulling it out with a pair of pliers. I am not kidding you, when I say it is by far the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life. My cheap fock father wouldn't bring me to the dentist, because I wasn't insured cause I was out of high school. After a week of this, he brought me to get it pulled.

 

I have NO idea how anyone could possibly live with an a abcessed tooth for any longer than a few days. What a sad story

[Snoopy1 0]

Not worked up at all.....

 

A good number of people are trying to claim its society's fault this happened........ Most people just attribbute it to a negligent parent. But there are always those people that think this mother had no blame at all in this.

 

 

Blame aside, really does prove an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.