Jeylin Hernandez Carmona took the news surprisingly well for a 9-year-old.
A tiny piece of her baby tooth was stuck inside her gum, a dental student explained, pointing to the white fragment on an X-ray image. That’s what had been causing her pain.
The school hosts the Give Kids a Smile program each year, providing thousands of dollars’ worth of dental cleanings and urgent treatment for children referred by the San Jose Clinic or the local Communities in Schools program. Many of the children, like Carmona, were immigrants who don’t have insurance and face at least a partial language barrier.
Among children enrolled in Medicaid, few receive their required dental services, according to a 2016 study from the Department of Health and Human Services. The pandemic also led to fewer visits to dental offices, said Dr. Margo Melchor, associate professor in the Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene and at the UTHealth School of Dentistry.
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