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A dental benefits industry group is complaining that health care reform proposals in Washington contain a change that parents and others won't like. Evelyn Ireland, executive director of the National Association of Dental Plans, wants to get the word out that buried in all the health care plans her group has studied there's a little paragraph that could make your teeth hurt so bad that no dentist can help;
"Forty million kids are going to be pulled out of their parents dental benefits and have their dental care provided by the medical plan that Congress is mandating, with no guarantee that the coverage is going to be as robust or that the dentist that they use today is going to be covered", Ireland said. "Because most medical plans don't even offer dental today, they would either have to add that capacity or buy it, at the very least complicating coverage."
In addition, the National Organization of Dental Plans is trying to fight a provision that would require everyone to pay for pediatric dental, even those who could never use it because they don't have kids.
Monday, September 21, 2009
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One of the best tips for dental care is to avoid sugar-containing foods, and soft drinks. This includes diet soda as well as regular soda. Diet soda has fructose, and other additives and regular soda has glucose, both of which mouth bacteria feed on. Since in just 20 minutes, bacteria can convert sugar into acidic material that can start the decay process.
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right Robert; the problem is that any food that contains carbohydrates contain sugar. Since we can avoid eating carbohydrates altogether, it's a good idea to reduce if not eliminate the consumption of soda pop, or at least drink water afterwards which will help flush out these bacteria-causing sugars from our mouths.
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