“Oral health is integral to overall health and well-being,” Cardin said Wednesday at the year’s first hearing of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care subcommittee, which he chairs. “It can make worse an underlying health condition, impacting overall healthcare costs. It can impact a person’s ability to get a job and be well enough to work. It impacts a person’s ability to go to school, impacting the local and national economy.”
Practitioners and other staff convened at the Task Force on Oral Health in Maryland’s monthly meeting, which is co-chaired by Alexander Shekdar from the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) and Mark Reynolds, dean of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.