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Stories about oral health equity shine a light on the inequities statewide. Please reach out to us with content ideas that we can help develop. You can also share our oral health news with your communities by following us on social media @DeltaDentalCO. Please tag us with your news and we will share as well.

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Media representatives are encouraged to contact us. We can provide resources about the foundation and our partners. We are also happy to connect you with one of our grantees for an interview. Videos about our work can be accessed on the foundation’s YouTube Page.

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Media Coverage and Press REleases

Maria Matias: Refugee to dental hygienist

Alamosa News
From homeless refugee to dental hygienist, Maria Matias’ journey began many years — and many miles — ago in Guatemala. Matias is now a registered dental hygienist splitting her time between Denver and Alamosa.

 

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Bright by Three Brings Parenting Tips to Your Fingertips

Fox 4 News
Bright by Three, a foundation partner, delivers early childhood development tips directly to a parent’s phone. Kathy Brendza, the group’s Regional Program Director, talks about this free program and how to subscribe to it.

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Your Healthy Family: Cavities get around campaign making progress in kids oral health

KOAA
Dr. Cheryl Lerner, the Vice President of Network and Clinical Management with Delta Dental of Colorado, educates viewers on the high amounts of sugar in juice and how drinking a lot of it can be detrimental to a child’s teeth. The segment recognized the success of the Cavities Get Around campaign in reducing juice consumption in young children.

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Entrevista Delta Dental “Las caries se propagan”

NOTICIASYA
El consumo de jugos puede provocar caries en los dientes de los menores de edad y Delta Dental lo explica mediante una prueba del consumo de golosinas.
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How Sweet is the Treat? The Denver Channel Finds Out!

Mile High Living

How much sugar is in the food items we commonly eat and drink? The Denver Channel had Wyatt Hornsby from the Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation stop by to reveal the surprising amount of sugar hidden in the treats we all enjoy.

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Denver physician a key voice for updated juice guidelines

9News
New recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics calling for much less fruit juice for children is, in part, a result of the work of Dr. Patty Braun, a physician who specializes in pediatrics at Denver Health and University of Colorado Hospital.

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Culinary Medicine

KWGN Channel 2 
20 University of Colorado dental and medical students joined culinary nutrition chefs side-by-side in the kitchen for a Culinary Medicine course, hosted at Johnson & Wales University’s production kitchens. Dental and medical students were presented with case studies in their discipline.

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CU Anschutz dental, medical students learn to cook for wellness from Johnson & Wales University

The Denver Post
The CU Frontier Center 4 Health is one of the first programs in the country to train dental, medical and pharmacy students to identify the connection between oral health and physical health.

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Cavities Get Around Campaign: Caring for Baby Teeth


WesternSlopeNow.com
Dr. Kate Hart, a pediatric dentist with the Marillac Clinic, and Dr. Cassana Littler, a pediatrician with Western Colorado Pediatric Associates, share the importance of taking care of a child’s baby teeth.

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Medical Dental Integration

KOAA – Your Healthy Family
Have you heard of the The Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation’s Colorado Medical Dental Integration Program? It’s doing amazing things in smaller communities across Colorado.

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