title: Continuing potential for pediatric dental services in nonurban areas.
abstract: Recently published pediatric dental-use-pattern data (into the second half of the 1980s), based on a distribution by urban vs nonurban residents, permit a review of the proposal for pediatric dentists to increase practice activities in nonurban areas. Despite a major concentration of the population in metropolitan areas of the country, there are 13.4 million children (between two and seventeen years of age) living in nonmetropolitan areas.
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; D002662:Child Health Services; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003752:Dental Health Services; D003815:Dentists / Q000600:supply & distribution; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007347:Insurance, Dental; D008297:Male; D012424:Rural Population