Meeske honored for drilling down on children’s tooth decay as a societal issue News

When Jessica Meeske graduated from dental school in the mid-1990s, she knew her mission was about more than just filling cavities.

“I knew we were never going to get to the bottom of this problem of rampant tooth decay in this country by drilling and filling one tooth at a time,” Meeske said. “So even back when I was in dental school, I started to look at the problem from a population basis and a policy basis.”

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