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Colorado’s Best
It’s not something we think about every day but dental hygiene for kids is a major issue. Childhood tooth decay is now one of the most common reasons kids visit the ER.

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

7News
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.