Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass defended comments on dental care for homeless meth users during a May 15 ABC 7 interview, saying ...

This story is part two in a two-part series looking at the holes in California's dental care safety net. The Brown administration and California lawmakers have solutions to the state’s broken program ...

Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. The State of California’s dental health system for the poor is ...

Denti-Cal has failed to provide adequate dental services to low-income children in California, according to a state audit released Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Denti-Cal is the ...

Fewer than half the low-income kids enrolled in California’s dental insurance program see a dentist in any given year. That seems like a problem. Whether it is, though, is impossible to tell because ...

Karen Wadsack stores her collection of broken teeth inside a tiny box. She considers each tooth essential evidence of a system that’s failed her. For the past eight years, the 68-year-old Sacramento ...

Western Dental, the state’s largest provider of Denti-Cal services to low-income patients, said it will no longer accept new patients under the program at more than a dozen of its clinics starting ...

A California program that subsidizes the cost of dental services for millions of low-income children and adults has come under scrutiny in recent months for the relatively small number of people ...

Despite sometimes crippling pain, “Tom,” a Denti-Cal recipient in downtown San Diego, had not seen a dentist in many years. Tom is a low-income senior who has diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

This is KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. The government spends more than $1 billion annually on California cheap. Denti-cal offers dental insurance to millions of Americans. Most dentists ...