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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

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.

Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation Celebrates Second Annual Oral Health Champions

Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation (DDCOF) has announced the winners of its second annual Oral Health Champion Awards (video link). These awards celebrate efforts to help eradicate the most common chronic disease of childhood: tooth decay.

Two organizations and two individuals have been recognized with 2016 Oral Health Champion Awards. Read about the winners in our press release.

The benefits of integrating dental care with medical visits

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
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.