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Cavities Get Around, Baby Teeth Matter

Fox31 Denver Wyatt Hornsby, Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation’s Campaign Director, joins us today on Daybreak to discuss the Cavities Get Around campaign.

School eliminates sugary snack served as fruit

Screen Shot 2016-08-30 at 12.43.32 PM7News A sugary snack once served as a breakfast fruit at a Denver Public School is now gone thanks to a group of parents and an organization dedicated to helping Latino families cut out sugar.

Keep the soda ban

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Let’s hope the District 51 school board exercises better judgment about what constitutes healthy beverages than the state board of education did Wednesday.

Colorado board to vote on ending diet-soda ban in high schools

The Denver Post A proposal to lift the seven-year ban on diet sodas in Colorado’s high schools would feed a variety of health problems among the state’s school kids, including obesity and tooth decay, health advocates say.

Just say no to diet sodas in Colorado high schools

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel The Colorado State Board of Education is meeting in Grand Junction on Wednesday on the Colorado Mesa University campus and will consider a policy with far-reaching impacts on the health and wellness of our state’s 900,000 public school students.

Peak Family Medicine Now Offering Preventive Dental Care During Regular Medical Visits

Peak Family Medicine is now offering a variety of preventive dental health services for children and adults during regular medical visits at its Montrose clinic. All forms of dental insurance, including Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus, are accepted.

Will diet soda be allowed back in Colorado high schools?

Delta Dental putting dentists among the doctors

Denver Business Journal Oral health is health care, just as surely as taking care of a broken limb, a woozy stomach or a chronic condition is health care. But for as long as there have been doctors’ and dentists’ offices, they have typically been in separate places, usually with no communication between them.

Getting to the root of the problem: The benefits of providing oral health care during regular medical visits

The Denver Post's Aurora YourHub section The traditional process of accessing medical and dental care is fairly straightforward. Does your child need a well-child checkup? Find a pediatrician who accepts your insurance and schedule an appointment. Need a dental check-up, cleaning or a cavity filled? Schedule a separate appointment with a dentist.

The benefits of providing oral health care during regular medical visits

La Junta Tribune Democrat The traditional process of accessing medical and dental care is fairly straightforward. Does your child need a well-child checkup? Find a pediatrician who accepts your insurance and schedule an appointment.