What Is the Association Between Income Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Children’s Dental Care?

Published in the Journal of the American Dental Association, this article investigates the degree of unmet dental care needs in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to determine if the reported unmet dental needs were associated with pandemic-related household job or income loss. Findings from this study sample concluded there were 3 times as many reports of unmet dental care for a child when compared with unmet medical care. Furthermore, unmet dental care for a child was more common in households where pandemic-related job or income loss had occurred.