Comprehensive pregnancy dental benefits improved dental coverage and increased dental care utilization among Medicaid-enrolled pregnant women in Virginia.

Overall, dental care utilization saw an increasing trend in the post-period years among Medicaid-enrolled women, but it remained lower than women with private insurance.

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The 27.2 percentage point increase in reporting dental insurance among Medicaid enrollees was highly significant, but while the absolute change in dental care utilization percentage was twice as large in the Medicaid group (7.4 percentage points) compared to the private insurance group (3.1 points), neither difference was statistically significant.

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