Conducting oral health screenings in schools is critically important to help children be healthy. Sherry Laliberte, the coordinator of the Maine CDC School Oral Health Program, wanted to publicize awareness about this during February 2022, Children’s Dental Health Month, but the news anchor who contacted her thought it would be more interesting to focus on one individual child. Read this story about how a routine screening by the School Oral Health Program helped uncover undiagnosed kidney disease in a child.
In February 2022, in order to better reflect their network’s identity as a network versus a single organization and to put children and the network structure at the forefront, the Partnership for Children’s Oral Health renamed itself the Children’s Oral Health Network of Maine. Along with this new name, work over the course of this coming year will include a focus to strengthen the collaborative governance of the Network. For more information, see the website.
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Update — MaineCare to Cover Adults
LD 996, the MaineCare adult dental bill, and increases in MaineCare reimbursement rates, were both included in Governor Mills’ supplemental budget, passed by the Legislature before adjournment on June 30!! We are thrilled to anticipate substantial changes in access to dental care for all people in Maine. The coverage and the rate changes won’t be implemented until July 1, 2022. For more information, read a story from Public News Service, and see our original post here.