Dan Rodricks: Dental care still out of reach for too many Americans

The young man could not have been more than 25, tall and thin, even a little gaunt. When he smiled, he was all cheekbones and chin, with only two or three crooked teeth left in his mouth. It was startling to see a fellow so young and so deprived. We met on a day in June, along a branch of the Potomac River. He was a pleasant guy, eager as a farm boy to go fishing, but his near toothlessness made him seem much older than his years.