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Dental Hygiene Visit: It’s Not Just a Cleaning.

David Schwab & Associates, Inc.

A dental hygiene visit in our office is not just a cleaning. It’s an important health visit with many important benefits to you: Think of a hygiene visit as the cheapest form of dental insurance. Hygiene visits help protect your investment in dental treatment. Periodontal (gum) disease is often a “silent disease.”

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12 Million People Lost Dental Coverage after COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Dentistry Today

Regular preventive dental care significantly saves overall medical and dental care costs. For example, one recent study found that adults with diabetes who were treated for periodontal disease saw their overall health care costs decrease by 12 to 14 percent.

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Canada Launches a Federal Oral Healthcare Plan

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

The plan aims to provide dental care benefits directly to Canadian residents with a household income below $90,000 who lack private insurance. Covered services include preventive, diagnostic, restorative, endodontic, prosthodontic, periodontal, and oral surgery services. Click here to read more.

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Senior Market Sales Launches Dental Quoting Tool

Dentistry Today

Senior Market Sales (SMS), a premier insurance marketing organization (IMO) serving independent insurance agents, has launched a proprietary tool that compares out-of-pocket costs for dental insurance from multiple carriers—a first-of-its kind feature that saves time and positions agents for dental sales.

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New Data Reveal Discrimination and Socioeconomic Factors Fuel Oral Health Disparities in the US

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

Additionally, discrimination in oral healthcare is closely tied to economic factors, with those lacking dental insurance being nearly twice as likely (11%) to report discrimination compared to those with coverage (6%).

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Pacific Dental Services Partners with Commonwealth Primary Care ACO to Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce Medical Expenses of ACO's Medicare Patient Population

Dental News and Technology

Through the initial phase of the partnership, both parties will prioritize medical-dental care integration so that patients within Commonwealth's network who are diagnosed with diabetes or prediabetes will receive proper oral healthcare and periodontal therapy as part of their clinical treatment plan.

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Updated Study Finds Healthcare Cost Savings Could Top $22 Billion Annually with Better Access to and Adoption of Oral Healthcare

Dental News and Technology

The new study is a refreshed look at an earlier study commissioned by the DTA and focuses specifically on populations of the country that are under-insured or completely without dental insurance. billion in diabetes-related healthcare costs could be subverted by improved and regular periodontal care.

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