Mainly fluoridated USA

................According to the medical director of Harrison Hospital’s Emergency Department, Mills said, some 1,300 people came to the hospital last year for “emergency” dental care. Most of the patients were low-income people in severe pain from dental problems and had no place else to go because dentists would not see them.

The problem is national and statewide, and the United Way recently identified access to affordable dental care as Kitsap County’s No. 1 need............