The May 2007 issue of Foresight, the newsletter of the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center, features an extensive Q&A with Dr. Jim Cecil about the status of oral health in Kentucky. Dr. Cecil is a public health dentist and retired Navy epidemiologist who holds degrees from Bellarmine University and the UK College of Dentistry. He is retiring this summer from his role with the KY Department of Public Health but will continue to serve Kentuckians in a part-time role focused on developing a new maternal-child health program at the UK College of Public Health.

Read the entire Q&A, including Dr. Cecil’s analysis of the state of rural dental health care in KY, how oral health is tied to economic development, and how Kentucky can learn from other states in the May 2007 issue of Foresight (PDF).