Dental Issues in Internationally Adopted and Foster Children
Warnings by international adoption doctors that children have a likelihood of lifetime dental issues can be found as far back as 1997. Yet, this is not something that is emphasized enough (or ever) in homestudies nor in the recent race to adopt special needs children. Children in Foster Care often have similar issues.
Here are some easy-to-read resources:
For Sedation dentistry that may be a necessity in dealing with severe dental issues caused by malnutrition and/or lack of early dental care: Sedation Dentistry 4 U
For Financing: Affordable Dental Payments discusses how to ask your dental office to spread out payment and third party financing options.
This website has tips on how to locate assistance programs for those that do not have dental insurance as well as a list of links to state dental associations that also can help an adoptive parent locate resources.
Medicaid dental information and SCHIP dental coverage information can be found here.
Sometimes dental schools will even assist. A list of names and addresses of all dental schools in the US and Canada can be found in this 3-page pdf.
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ah. right. so our girls should have just died from sepsis and/or airway blockage due to infection. gotcha. all about the kiddos, aren’t ya? by the way, she is doing great after surgery. thanks for your concern.
This is a resource post for anyone including Social workers, PAPs and APs to use to find dental care and coverage much like our other posts about mental health and IA doctors. Your comment makes no sense here.
Reece’s Rainbow’s Ashley Beck begged for money from strangers to adopt two Bulgarian boys who are currently being medically neglected because she cannot afford to care for them — which includes getting little Judah dental care, even though he’s been home and in AGONY for NINE MONTHS since his adoption!!!
“We were told our medical insurance will not pay for the hospital which is 5000.00. That is just to use the facility. That doesn’t include any doctors or any dental work. The dentist said whatever our allotment is for dental he will max it out for sure and we will pay what’s left. They will also try to get the insurance to pay since it is medically necessary but our insurance doesn’t care. Judah needs to eat and formula is medically necessary but they don’t care, they denied him.
God brought the finances we needed to bring home our children He certainly isn’t going to drop us now. I know some of you may be thinking well why did she even adopt them if not financially able to care for them. We could pay all our bills and charitable donations. We lived an easy life. Things were good and we were blessed and highly favored. We had no idea that when we brought them home upon meeting our out of pocket max the insurance would get angry and stop paying all of their portion. We had two other kids with sn at the time and had no issues. …
…I’m learning that we aren’t meant to go at this life alone. We are to be the hands and feet of Jesus. We are also suppose to accept help when we need it. There is no shame or condemnation in asking for help. I love to give but the hardest thing for me to do is take and yet I seem to always be put in a position that requires me to humble myself and accept help. It’s a struggle for me personally. I long for the day when I can write someone a 15,000.00. Heck to help them with an adoption or medical or housing or whatever need they may have”
In the meantime, Ashley’s leaving little Judah to suffer! She’s medically neglecting him!!!
http://continuingourjourney.blogspot.com/2014/04/judah-teeth.html
I was going to post a comment offering the URLs mentioned above as to how to pay for dental care your insurance won’t cover, but then I noticed that “Only a member of this blog may post a comment” over the Comment field.
Huh!?! What’s the point in having a place to make comments then? Surely “blog members” can post material WIHOUT needing to go through the comments. Doesn’t she know how to turn off comments, or turn on comment moderation?
Can’t anyone in the Adoption Ministry world think of any way to solve a financial problem EXCEPT trying to quilt-trip strangers into giving you money? Michael and Debi Pearl of ‘To Train Up a Child’ fame recently successfully begged enough money from strangers to pay for Debi Pearl to have neck surgery. Why bother to pay for health insurance when you can always panhandle to pay for your care if need be?
http://freejinger.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21114
Ashley and Paul Beck have set up a BEGGING FOR MONEY site to get their adopted son Judah’s teeth fixed. Teeth they cannot afford to fix:
http://www.gofundme.com/8eyr40
Somebody needs to stop approving unprepared idiots like this from adopting!
I wonder if it’s occurred to Paul and Ashley Beck to appeal their insurance company’s denial? After all, the condition of Judah’s teeth is indisputably a pre-existing condition.
But then, having anonymous strangers give you money is easy. It doesn’t involve confrontation with a series of insurance company supervisors, or arranging a payment plan with the dental surgeon… or the embarrassment of applying for public assistance, even though it’s no more “charity” than internet panhandling is.
Ashlee Beck is upset that somebody reported them to CPS for medical neglect. Hopefully CPS can expedite medical care for her little boy.
It’s a strange sort of cognitive dissonance that causes a person to:
1) spend months blogging about your inability to provide your kids with the basic medical care they need because you CANNOT afford to do so
2) set up a public website begging for $8-10k declaring your 11 year old “drinks formula through a straw to survive” and proclaiming that “it is just a matter of time before the infection hits his bloodstream and can cause death. Yes, it really is that bad”, complete with graphic photos.
3) be shocked, just SHOCKED, when CPS takes an interest in the kid you’ve failed to obtain medical treatment for based on the photos you posted on your blog and gofundme site.
CPS is far from perfect, but based simply on the info the Beck’s posted online, it certainly looks like there is cause to launch an investigation.
(And FWIW, investigating a family who had a previous run-in with CPS in Pennsylvania — that Ashlee publicly blogged about; the claim wasn’t substantiated — probably isn’t the worst idea in the world.
I’m also assuming that the reason almost every state has laws allowing folks to anonymously report child abuse is because if they didn’t, a considerable amount of child abuse would just NOT be reported).
“My worst fear has been false allegations against me and my family. Courtrooms scare me, CPS scared me. Yes I use the past tense scared because yesterday God showed me that even when your worst fear calls you on the phone to tell you you have been turned in for medical neglect He is there to give you peace. Yes that’s right last night I got a call from CPS saying someone had turned us in for medical neglect on Judah. The first thing I did was my chest kind of collapsed and I got scared, but as she was talking Go gave me peace and I laughed at the absurdity. Judah, medical neglect? We are at the hospital almost daily. The doctors know my voice when I call. We talked for some time and now the case worker must call all the doctors and Judah’s school. I gave her all the information because my life is an open book.
What a gigantic waste of resources. How much money, time and effort is going into proving we aren’t medically neglecting our son when there are children out the dying at the hands of their parents or caregivers? How many children will fall through the cracks because my family is being investigated? How many children, like I was, will CPS fail because they are checking into false allegations given by an internet stranger? That is the really horrific tragedy. Something must change!
Why can I person on the internet who has never met my family or bothered to even look us up, make false allegations and those allegations are taken seriously?
Something must change. The system must change! This is a hate crime. If more people would get upset that honest hardworking families are getting falsely accused by strangers and CPS is giving merit to this then this wouldn’t continue. If we like common criminals were allowed to face our accuser without them being protected by complete anonymity then false claims would go down if not halt altogether and the money wasted on proving my family and others like mine are not medically neglecting our children could be used to help the children who live in fear every single day. The children who have special needs and a parent who once only slapped the kid around now beheads him and sticks the boys head on the lawn for all to see, the children chained to cribs, locked in closets, or hidden away in attics starved nearly to death, they could be saved. (All examples are true stories.) “
Reporting that a child has a potentially-fatal untreated medical condition because the parents can’t afford care is a “hate crime”?
Or more precisely, his teeth haven’t been fixed yet because the APs don’t want to set up a payment plan with the hospital, or apply for public assistance. They’d rather wait until they have his dental surgery “fully funded” by other people before moving forward. IOW, they put their credit rating (or their pride) ahead of their child’s well-being.