Trends in dental care utilization and cost-related access barriers among working-age adults with and without disabilities, 2019-2023.
Working-age adults with disabilities experienced sharper pandemic-related drops in dental visits than those without disabilities, though utilization recovered by 2023; however, cost-related barriers to dental care remained persistently higher among disabled adults throughout the study period.
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