title: Pediatric dentistry demographics: more than just numbers of children.
abstract: Few dental practitioners or even the general public would be surprised to hear that a large and growing population of minority children do not receive needed dental services, either in terms of prevention or treatment. The numbers of children overall will remain relatively stable: minority children will be more represented, however, as the numbers of non-minority children decrease or level off in the first third of the next century.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dental Health, School of Dental Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794-8715.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Waldman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003710:Demography; D003729:Dental Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States