Parents whose children did not receive all the preventive care they needed were asked why their children had not received all the dental care they needed. The most commonly reported reasons were financial: the child had no insurance to cover the services (30.9 percent) or the services cost too much (29.3 percent).

Other commonly reported reasons were the inability to get an appointment (16.2 percent), a problem with the health plan (10.9 percent), and the inability to find a dentist who takes the child’s insurance (7.2 percent). Parents could give more than one reason for their children not receiving needed dental care.

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