Report Shows Dentist Shortage in San Joaquin County
A report from UCLA finds that certain areas in San Joaquin County have a shortage of dental health professionals. The study identified southeast Stockton and downtown Stockton as two of the state's 233 dental health professional shortage areas, meaning the areas have a dentist-to-population ratio of 1-to-5,000 or less, or have a population with unusually high needs or insufficient capacity for care among the existing dentists.
- "For Many in Valley, Shortage of Dentists Takes Bite Out of Health" (Goldeen, Stockton Record, 6/3).