Date:2/22/2010

One of Nine States to Receive an "F" grade

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Florida is failing to ensure the dental health needs of its children, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States. The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children, released with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the DentaQuest Foundation, grades each state's policy responses to the urgent challenges in dental health among America's children.

Florida received an "F" grade because it met two of the eight policy benchmarks in Pew's analysi
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