Rebekah Mathews

Federally Qualified Health Center
SC's Healthy Connections program supports oral health
In this Second Opinion, Rebekah Mathews, the regional director of DentaQuest South Carolina, examines the issues surrounding the far-too-frequent lack of adult dental care for many Medicaid programs and the benefits of South Carolina's recently enacted legislation for adult preventive dental care.
December 9, 2014
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