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More kids are in ERs for tooth pain. Budget cuts and fluoride fights aren't helping.

Home - CBSNews.com·@Cbsnews·2 months ago
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Eight-year-old Jonah woke up one May morning with a swollen face and a toothache. He refused the pain medication that his mom, Geneva Reynolds, tried to give him. He didn't sleep or eat and cried constantly.Within a few days, Reynolds became so desperate that she and her husband had to physically restrain Jonah, dumping pain medication down his throat as he screamed in pain."It broke our hearts," said Reynolds, who lived in Georgetown, Kentucky, at the time. "And I remember just thinking that it shouldn't have to come to that."Reynolds couldn't find a dentist with an opening who could treat Jonah, who is autistic and often resists dental exams due to hypersensitivity and anxiety. Over the course of five days, Reynolds took Jonah twice to a nearby emergency room as he struggled with persistent pain and a fever due to a likely infected tooth with an exposed nerve.…

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