Dental Insurance: A Key to Total Health
By David Berube, MD, MPH
VP Claims, Chief Medical Officer
Lincoln Financial Group
By Sue Wright
AVP Group Products
Lincoln Financial Group
Don’t overlook dental health as an integral part of total health for your employees. Like other forms of essential care, it can promote overall well-being, employment, and financial stability.
Regular dental exams may detect many health problems early on, before serious complications develop, including cancer, diabetes, gastrointestinal reflux, sleep disorders, bleeding problems, and auto-immune disease. Additionally, the need for good oral care is increasing with the aging of the working population. Older people have more co-morbid medical conditions as well as reductions in vision and decreased sensation that may make it more difficult to maintain good self-care and identify problems.1
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