De Bord Jessica
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Children's Village, Yakima, Wash., USA; Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., USA.
Pediatr Dent. 2014 May-Jun;36(3):202-4.
When examining solutions to mitigate dental disease and the crisis involving access to care, a question is frequently raised: "Is some care better than no care?" However, the question generally lingers unanswered. The purpose of this paper was to perform an ethical analysis of the question "is some care better than no care?" in order to ascertain whether solutions that provide "some care" are ethically justifiable.