Thursday, March 24, 2016

We Love Preventative Medicine, but Forgot about Dental Health

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Being frugal is smart. Being reckless with your health is not. Assuming that dental care is something you can skip to save some extra cash... well, take a look at the headline above and guess.
Renter, who consistently does really good work on health and wellness, touches on the broader cultural issue at hand here: proactivity versus reactivity. Most Americans completely forgo preventative dental care, a trend she describes as "a costly exercise in denial," and it's not always prohibitive cost getting in their way. Often, it's just inertia. It's a sad truth that too many people never find a way to adapt to one of life's simplest lessons: to do nothing about your problems now only leads to further complications down the road. Oral health is but one glaring example.

Read More: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/why-its-important-to-have-dental-insurance?fb_ref=Default&fb_source=message 
Related Article: NSU College of Dental Medicine to Kick Off National Gives Kids A Smile® Program

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