Tackling Inequities Can Reduce The Burdens of Oral Health Diseases
Inequity is a disease that creates a crazy circle if not tackled. It is like a malignant growth that gets under the skin and spreads until the next generation is crippled. The evil plague of oral health challenges, most especially in under-served communities is a mighty ocean formed from the tiny drops of inequity. There is an everyday collision of inequity, its children and oral health diseases. As a dentist, I am faced with the challenge of tackling the diseases of inequities’ most obvious portals while constantly forced to face the pain of watching the people who seemingly cannot afford to buy a toothbrush drown themselves in the hopelessness of anxiety and depression, among the other stings that come from inequity. No doubt that oral health problems weigh down heavily on the economically disadvantaged population and inequity is a causative factor. There is another disturbing wrinkle to this: the most…