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Medi-Cal’s Dental Care Gap: Getting a Tooth Pulled Is Easy — Much Harder To Get an Implant
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that 21% of California dentists saw Medi-Cal patients of all ages, according to data from 2019 to 2021.
Author
Nadereh Pourat, PhD
Director, Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program, and Associate Center Director