Schools May Soon Get Mobile Hygiene/Dental Services

.....Hylan pointed out that dental health care throughout the state is "at a crisis point. There are over 400,000 total Medicaid recipients, and then one in four kids in Connecticut are on Medicaid. Two thirds of those children receive absolutely no dental care." In Norwalk, 13.2 percent of students under the age of 18 are living in poverty, she said. More than 4,000 Norwalk children are enrolled in the state's Healthcare for UninSured Kids and Youth Plan. .........

Fluoridation is state-mandated in Connecticut:NYSCOF