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[by Jack Davies; courtesy photo]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor\u2019s Note: The following story is part of a collaboration between journalism students at San Francisco State and El Tecolote, and is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.] <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Magic Tooth Bus drives through San Francisco, providing children with dental services at schools and dental fairs. It\u2019s like Santa\u2019s sleigh, only the present is a cavity-free mouth instead of a new bike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dental care is a challenge for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) children across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lack of education, dental deserts, financial restraints, language barriers and a child\u2019s diet, are all contributing factors hindering access to dental care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cavities for Latinx youth between the ages of 2\u201319 are at a high rate of 52 percent. When compared to other ethnicities, this is a stark contrast. Black youth see a rate of 44 percent, for Asian youth it\u2019s 42 percent, and for White youth, it\u2019s a rate of just 39 percent<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco has made significant strides in recent years in reducing cavities in BIPOC children. The City has found innovative ways to bring dental care to children who need it, such as the Magic Tooth Bus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elaine Musselman, Director of Pediatrics at San Francisco State University, found success in bringing dental care to kids who can\u2019t otherwise get access, whether due to dental deserts, lack of income, or an inability for their parents to take them during work hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musselman works with CavityFree SF, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing dental care for children in San Francisco. CavityFree SF partners with the Head Start program and Unified School District in San Francisco to bring dental care to kids up to fifth grade. In doing this, the parents don\u2019t have to worry about scheduling time for a dentist appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one thing we found that works really well,\u201d Musselman said. \u201cIt\u2019s very effective to bring those services there. We bring dental hygienists in, that do dental exams, we do fluoride varnishes at the schools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added that they recently expanded the age range up to grades 2\u20135 since children with a lack of access in kindergarten will likely have those same access issues when they are older. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CavityFree SF also provides the Magic Tooth Bus at health fairs throughout the city. There are dentists and hygienists who speak multiple languages so that parents and children of different ethnicities can understand what is going on in the child\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re bringing that care to the kids where they\u2019re at,\u201d Musselman said. \u201cWe\u2019re meeting them at the preschools in San Francisco, we\u2019re meeting them in their school districts. If we\u2019re not bringing it to them, they\u2019re not going to have it. That\u2019s the unfortunate reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solutions like this help reduce many of the problems for Latinx children. CavityFree SF has currently cared for 5,000 of the 15,000 children ages 0\u20135 who are Medi-Cal recipients. For children between the ages of 3\u20135, cavities have decreased from 41 percent in the 2013\u201314 school year to 26 percent in the 2017-18 school year, the last year of available data for CavityFree SF due to COVID-19 interrupting things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, there was a 55 percent increase in fluoride varnishes applied to preschoolers between 2016 and 2017 in the most recent data available from CavityFreeSF. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While progress has been made, there\u2019s still more that can be done locally and nationally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martha Ortiz, a dental assistant at Bay Area Dental Office in Redwood City, said that the main reason for the discrepancy in dental care for Latinx children is a lack of education about oral care, whether from schools or parents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ortiz suggested that the best way to educate parents and children is for schools to offer a day where parents and their children go to a dental office or dental school to learn about the importance of dental care. Ortiz has provided visual demonstrations in the past and finds those to be very helpful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cParents will learn and they will take action,\u201d Ortiz said. \u201cWhen I used to go to schools, I will take a Coke and I will ask the children, \u2018Do you know how much sugar this has?\u2019 I will put the amount of sugar in a Ziploc bag and tell them, \u2018If you don\u2019t brush, this is what stays on your teeth.\u2019 And visually they see and they will tell their parents.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ortiz also said that many parents aren\u2019t aware that cavities are contagious and can be transmitted from kissing your child on the mouth or sharing food and drinks with them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An additional issue is the language barrier. English speakers visit the dentist more often than Spanish-speaking children and as a result, Spanish-speaking children are less likely to receive adequate dental care. \u201cHispanic\u201d dentists only compose 5.6 percent of the active dentists in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it’s frustrating for the family and the parents to go in there,\u201d Musselman said. \u201cBecause they don’t understand what’s going on. So that is where a lot of our work is, is finding those dentists in the area who do speak the other languages, whether it’s Cantonese or Spanish, that are willing to work with the low-income families.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another issue is that many dentists do not like to take in children because they can be difficult to deal with as opposed to adults. Additionally, many dentists don\u2019t make as much money for taking in Medi-Cal patients as they do for patients with more expensive medical plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn order to try and bridge a little bit of that gap with oral health with children, pediatricians now actually check teeth,\u201d Musselman said. \u201cPediatricians are referring children to dentists. One thing that’s really important, especially for the younger ages, is getting fluoride varnish put on their teeth to protect the enamel. If you protect that enamel, you’re preventing cavities. Pediatricians\u2019 offices are now applying fluoride varnish.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-Licensure Clinical Placement Coordinator at San Francisco State University, Larry Vitale, has seen the impact that diet can have on the teeth of Latinx children in his 38 years of experience in the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vitale said that immigrants coming to the Bay Area don\u2019t trust the water because the water they had in their native land wasn\u2019t suitable to drink. Instead, the families will opt for cheap alternatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey end up giving children what they like and what they can afford now, because it\u2019s cheap,\u201d Vitale said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the sugar drinks. This ends up being a problem, not only for teeth, but for weight and all sorts of other things. So part of that is the targeting of low-income immigrant communities, which is structural racism, and the lack of appropriate resources for better choices.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nation has an issue with making sure dental care is accessible to everyone who needs it. But San Francisco is making significant efforts toward making this less of an issue for the Bay Area. The rest of the country will likely follow, but it\u2019s a matter of taking action to help those who desperately need it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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