Tag: dental health
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One of every three Kentucky adults didn’t see a dentist last year; key factors are overall health, insurance and income
More than a third of Kentucky adults say they didn’t go to a dentist last year, and one in six said they hadn’t in five years or more, according to...
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Beshear lays out plan for improving Kentucky’s health, with specific goals and largely administrative strategies
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Steve Beshear set seven specific, numerical goals Thursday for improving Kentucky’s “dismal” health status, which he said is hurting the state’s education, productivity,...
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Halloween candy hikes risk of cavities, not just from more sugar, but from more frequent eating of it; here are tooth-friendly tips
Photo from EnviroDad.com Halloween candy can rot your teeth. At Halloween, the issue is not just sugar, it’s how often you eat it. Often, kids bring enough candy home from...
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Does gum disease indicate future joint problems? Study links gum-disease bacterium to collagen-caused rheumatoid arthritis
Although researchers and clinicians have long known about an association between two prevalent chronic inflammatory diseases – periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis – the microbiological links have been unclear; a...
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Effort for kids’ dental health in Clark, started by volunteers and continued by health department with tax, earns national award
“A community effort to fight tooth decay in children in Clark County has been named a model for the nation,” veteran journalist Al Smith reports in an op-ed for the...
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Foundation breaks down poll by region to show differences among Kentuckians’ views on health topics and issues
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has released regional breakdowns of the Kentucky Health Issues Poll, conducted for it and the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati last fall. Each breakdown...
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Sick of all the bad facts about Kentucky’s health? Here’s encouraging news about oral health and drug treatment
Despite the plethora of bad news about Kentucky’s poor health status, there are many positive initiatives for Kentucky’s oral health and substance abuse treatment, which were stories buried under health...
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Oral health care for the poor in Kentucky suffers under managed care as dentists leave Medicaid; how about your county?
Kentucky’s serious oral-health problems are getting worse because fewer dentists are participating in the Medicaid program — a result of “new paperwork issues compounding Medicaid’s reputation” for low payments to...
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Poll shows more than half of Ky. adults have no dental insurance and many go without essential dental care
Routine dental care is essential to overall health, but a new poll shows 1.7 million Kentucky adults do not have dental insurance. That is more than times the number of...
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U of L dean says $50 billion in annual health costs could be saved if Americans just walked more
Small changes in health behavior can have a huge impact on the public’s overall health and well-being, and during National Public Health Week discussions last week, Dr. Craig Blakely, the...