State Oral Health Program.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to maintain a dental program, as specified, and requires the department to appoint a dentist licensed in California to administer the program. The program components include, but are not limited to, development of comprehensive dental health plans within the framework of the State Plan for Health to maximize utilization of all resources, and provision of the consultation necessary to coordinate federal, state, county, and city agency programs concerned with dental health. This bill would add to the components of the dental program, developing and maintaining a data collection and reporting system to monitor the dental disease experience and unmet dental need in California. The bill also would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.