This might not be something on the tip of your tongue in everyday conversation, but it’s important — especially when it comes to thinking about overall health.
Your mouth is where the digestive process begins. It also is a key part of your respiratory system.
Those things might seem obvious to many. So why, oral health care providers ask, is what’s inside the mouth — teeth and gums, for starters — treated as less essential when it comes to insurance and other health care benefits?
The American Dental Association explained why that should not be the case in a letter from its leadership earlier this month to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the administrator of the federal Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (or CMS).
Source: Dental care changes could reshape insurance benefits / The Robesonian