There’s still time to take advantage of your 2015 dental insurance benefits to save you and your family money while improving your health. If you have dental insurance and your plan runs on the calendar year, here are seven reasons why you should make your dental appointment today. If your insurance runs on a fiscal year, keep these in mind throughout the year: YEARLY MAXIMUM: Most dental insurance plans provide a yearly maximum that they will pay for an individual for dental work per year. … [Read more...] about Save Hundreds of Dollars by Year End
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Empower Yourself: Secrets to a Healthy Smile
Last month’s “Secrets to a Healthy Smile” article focused on tooth decay as a common contributor to tooth damage and tooth loss. Oral acids from various sources have the potential to lower oral PH (acidity), resulting in the loss of precious minerals from enamel and tooth roots. According to a National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) study, since 1970, tooth decay has been on the decline in all subgroups of the population. However, the NIDCR also reported that 92 percent of … [Read more...] about Empower Yourself: Secrets to a Healthy Smile
Empower Yourself: Secrets to a Healthy Smile – Part I
It is a fact that oral health is improving; more people are keeping their teeth and fewer individuals are in need of dentures as they enter the "golden" years. We can attribute our good fortune to modern advances in dental technology, increased access to educational material, better understanding of oral disease processes and more abundant accessibility to oral health care. Despite the many tools we have available to help successfully preserve our teeth throughout our lifetime, it has been my … [Read more...] about Empower Yourself: Secrets to a Healthy Smile – Part I