Dental health across the U.S. has improved steadily in recent years and most Virginians receive more frequent preventive care than the national average. But some segments of Virginia’s population have clearly been left behind in access to dental care, according to the authors, Terance Rephann and Tanya Wanchek.

Cooper Center economist, Bill Shobe, reviews the current economic climate. While the economy is recovering, the residual effect of the collapse in credit markets continues to cause substantial waste of economic resources, viz the valuable labor of the high numbers of under-employed workers.

This paper describes and analyzes disparities in the number of dentists among U.S. counties along the rural-urban continuum.