Dental funding in this week’s budget is just tinkering around the edges. We need so much more

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This week’s federal budget was meant to help tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

But Treasurer Jim Chalmers has done little to address a big out-of-pocket health cost millions of Australians face – dental care. This highlights the blind spot in the way successive governments think about oral health.