Dane County residents are showing up by the thousands in the county’s emergency rooms and urgent care clinics because of bad teeth.  According to a report from Public Health Madison & Dane County (PHMDC) and the Oral Health Coalition of Dane County, more than 4,000 patients presented with dental pain at local emergency and urgent care clinics in Dane County in 2015.

A Report on Dane County Hospital Emergency Department & Urgent Care Visits for Non-Traumatic Dental Pain (at http://www.publichealthmdc.com/publications/documents/ED-UCCDentalDataRpt201703.pdf) shows that UW Health, SSM Healt...