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Statistics

"There are 45 million Americans with NO MEDICAL INSURANCE."
- U.S Census 2000

"Over 108 million children and adults lack dental insurance, which is over 2.5 times the number who lack medical insurance."
- Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General, 5/01

"More than 1 million Americans 40 and over are blind from eye disease. An additional 2.3 million Americans are visually impaired."
- National Eye Institute & Prevent Blindness America, 03/02

"More than 10 million children (or one in four) in the United States were expected to begin the 2002-2003 school year with an undetected vision problem."
- Vision Council of America, July 2002

"Americans make more visits to nonconventional healers (some 600 million a year) than we do to M.D.s and spend more money out-of-pocket to do so about $30 billion a year by recent estimates."
- Newsweek, 12/2002

"Patients seeing chiropractors described the treatment as helpful in 96% of the cases."
-Chiropractic Health & Education, Dr. James M. Cox D.C., 1/2003

"An estimated 75% of Americans reportedly have some form of periodontal disease."
- The American Dental Hygienists' Association - 4/02