Not Enough Dentistry

Leila J Mady; Wassim Najjar; Catherine Hayes; Rabie M Shanti

doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2024.4851

Not Enough Dentistry

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2025 Jan 23. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2024.4851. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Leila J Mady^{1

2}, Wassim Najjar¹, Catherine Hayes³, Rabie M Shanti⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Hopkins Business of Health Initiative, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Newark, New Jersey.

PMID: 39847372
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2024.4851

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses the gap in dental insurance coverage for patients with head and neck cancer, many of whom forego dental care to treat or prevent oral complications of head and neck cancer therapy due to financial hardship.