A Profile of Black and Hispanic Subgroup's Access to Dental Care Findings

In Ronald Forthofer’s article, "A Profile of Black and Hispanic subgroups Access to Dental care Findings" (1992), he reports that African Americans and Hispanics are least likely out of any other race to obtain dental insurence. Forthofer supports this with a National Health interview. Forthofer’s purpose for this article is to provide direct statistics to this dental care problem. His language is very professional and informative in the article.

Dental care visits among low-income African Americans

In his article "Determinants of dental care visits among low-income African-American children” (2007), Sohn Woosung asserts African American children are far less likely to have been taken to dental visits on a regular bases compared to white children. Woosung supports his claims about African American dental care by providing a study done in Detroit where a lot of the low income Blacks lived, and assessed them using the International Caries Diagnosis Assessment System. His purpose is to inform individuals in society that African American children are not receiving adequate dental care . His tone seems to be very professional and informative.