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"The Ohio Department of Health has identified dental care as the state's No. 1 unmet health need for children and adults.

Without insurance -- or cash to pay the dental bill -- many people put off care or go to hospital emergency rooms only when the pain gets unbearable."

``'Our problem has been recruiting enough dentists to give us time on the van,'' she said."