In Kentucky’s Teeth, Toll of Poverty and Neglect
BARBOURVILLE, Ky. — In the 18 years he has been visiting nursing homes, seeing patients in his private practice and, more recently, driving his mobile dental clinic through Appalachian hills and hollows, Dr. Edwin E. Smith has seen the extremes of neglect.
Dr. Smith has a rare window on a state with the highest proportion of adults under 65 without teeth, where about half the population does not have dental insurance. He struggles to counter the effects of the drastic shortage of dentists in rural areas and oral hygiene habits that have been slow to change.
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Not only in Britain but in the wealthiest nation on earth, ordinary people are finding it extraordinarily difficult in basic hygiene, or getting access to basic needs. In the USA where many just do not care for their fellow man and that is beyond Christmas, the philosophy of me me me is proving as corrupt as the opposite culture of state socialism. In UK, where medical facilities can barely cope with the numbers of ill people, there are still advocates of a policy that says we can afford help to everyone who needs it. A LIBERAL PIPE DREAM and economic lunacy.
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