Dental Insurance - Encourage use before they take matters in their own hands

If your company has a dental plan then encourage your employees to use it.   The plan will pay for itself if the employees just go for their checkups every six months.  Is your firm encouraging the employees to go to their dentist?  It is as much a part of wellness as going to their doctors regularly.  Most parents and most adults don't do enough in the oral hygiene arena.  With 8,000 people dying in America per year from oral cancer we can all do better.   

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Did you know: Diabetes cost could double or triple by 2050?

 According to an October 2010 report released by the Centers for Disease Control and published in Population Health Metrics, the annual cost of diabetes in the United States is $174 billion, $116 billion of which is in direct medical costs. That figure is expected to double or triple by 2050, with one in every three Americans suffering from the disease.