A new survey says Connecticut residents are second best when it comes to visiting the dentist. They rank second only to Massachusetts.
The new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, published by TrendCt.org, says 76.1 percent of residents regularly go to the dentist, only 0.1 percent behind first-place Massachusetts.
“Oral health is a growing initiative in primary care practice and in the education of all health care providers,” said Dennis Brown, director of the physician assistant program and clinical assistant professor of physician assistant studies at Quinnipiac University “The correlation of a person’s oral health to their overall health has been known for years.”
Brown said it is only by recent initiatives that oral health screenings and counseling have transcended into the primary care providers offices, augmenting the work of the dental community to provide for better oral and overall health of the community.
