Show IP A r t. t MILE SS Tr i is IS a r ii 4 Healthy Mouth NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CHILDRENS 7 fi DENTAL HEALTH WEEK It seems to me that the cost of dental den tal care is getting gelling higher and higher Im I'm finding it difficult to keep kelp my family in good dental health Cant Can't the dental profession do something to keep costs down YOU ARE right Dental care is more expensive lve than it was say ten years ago ao a o. o But so is just about everything else You and your our pocketbook know that inflation in is a constant concern Each year the cost of living continues to rise It is interesting to note that between een 1958 1953 and 1970 according to the US U.S. Department of Labor the cost of living living liv liv- ing ro rose rase e 27 per pel cent annually and wages rose about five per cent annually At the same time dental fees increased about five per cent per year THERE ARE ways to keep cost of dental care down and we shall discuss some somes of them for you One way is to discuss payment with your family fancily den den- He Ill may be able to help you work workout workout out put a payment system that will be within with in your budget and still permit you to obtain good dental services Another way to manage manage dental care costs is through prepayment or d dental insurance More than ten million people are now covered by prepayment and unions and management groups are be coming increasingly interested in providing pro pro- viding dental care coverage as part of their over all package of health care fringe benefits IN UTAH there are arc many commercial insurance companies as well as the Den tal tat Associations Association's sponsored Delta Dental Plan that provide good prepaid dental programs for groups of five employees or more Your company or union official could contact them for more information Delta Dental Plan presently rovers covers over Utah people and pays per month for treatment rendered in behalf of those people I IF F YOU are arc classified ried as medically needy which means you have sufficient sum dent income to support your family but not enough left over to pay health costs you may qualify for dental care under under un un- un der del your state Medicaid program You should check with your local dental society society so so- clety or the Division of Services to see if you can qualify for the Medicaid Medicaid Medi caid program or if it has other programs that provide health care including dental den tal tel care Mast important of all you can practIce practice ice preventive home care described in previous articles Regular dental checkups checkups checkups check check- ups and good home oral hygiene substantially sub reduce dental care costs |