With an influx of refugees coming from Afghanistan and Ukraine, dentists are seeing more young patients struggling with severe oral health problems caused by years of lack of preventative care.
“A lot of the kids come with active infections,” said Krusky who works at the Sayahh City Kids Dental Care office in northeast Calgary. “They will come with cavities that we would normally see in kids that simply do not have access to dental care.”
He said refugees are likely to be covered under government plans but it’s typically limited to emergency care and pain only. “A lot of these kids are very young. A lot of them don’t have a grasp of English. They don’t understand what we are doing or why we are doing it,” Krusky said. “In the case where a child has a lot more work to do and they are very small, it’s very hard to do that work while they are awake.
Yaholnitsky said Alberta dentists have been providing free service but that’s not a sustainable solution in the long run.
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