“The mouth reflects general health and well-being.”¹ Maintaining a healthy oral health practice is one way to reduce oral diseases and disorders. The unisured, low-income and disabled make up most of Hawaii’s population that suffer from oral health complications. Hawaii children have one of the highest rates of dental cavities in the nation. Low-income adults do not have the capacity to receive preventive dental care and only see dentists during emergency dental treatment. Despite the good dentist to residents ratio, 1: 1257, Hawaii’s population suffers due to dental providers unwilling to care for the needy and vulnerable population. Another contributing factor is the lack of fluoridation in Hawaii’s water.² Understanding the link between oral health and disease is one way for oral health to be accepted as a major component of general health.³

¹,³ CDC. (2006, April) Oral health in America: Summary of the Surgeon General's Report. Fact Sheet. Retrieved on March 22, 2007 from http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/factsheets/sgr2000-05.htm
² Hawaii State Department of Health. (n.d) Action Plan.. the first steps. Hawaiian Islands Oral Health Task Force. Retrieved on March 22, 2007 from http://www.hawaii.gov/health/family-child-health/dental/index.html

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