Medicaid Oral Health Performance Improvement Projects: A How-To-Manual for Health Plans

Presents a summary and list of recommendations on reducing early childhood tooth decay at the state level. The issue brief focuses on early childhood caries (ECC).  ECC is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood in the United States, affecting about 23 percent of the nation’s 2- to 5-year-olds, and disproportionately impacting children from lower-income homes and of Mexican origin and black non-Hispanic children.