In 2018, more than 10% of the total U.S. population had diabetes, and more than one-third of U.S. adults had prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the same year, about 34.1 million adults age 18 years or o...

Each year, growing research continues to reinforce the connections between oral health and overall health. For people with chronic conditions such as diabetes, those connections are even more critical.So, when a health system expressed interest in de...

Helping a man find a home.Connecting a single parent with care for their child. Assisting a young woman with transportation after her car broke down.These things may not sound like the purview of an oral health care company, but for DentaQuest’s case...

By Steve Pollock, DentaQuest president and CEOOne year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to feel the effects of this public health emergency on our society. We recently marked the tragic — and at one time unthinkable — milestone of 500,000 deat...

At DentaQuest, we talk with people every day who are both in need of dental care and concerned about the cost of their care. We process claims for a long list of important services provided to children and adults.While necessary, these covered servic...

By Sean Boynes, DMD, Vice President of Health Improvement, and Kelli Ohrenberger, Director of Interprofessional Care, DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Health Advancement The mouth and the body are integrally connected. Over the past decade, bot...

Slowly, the siloes are breaking down. Oral care is often isolated from the rest of the health care system and from conversations about overall health — even though studies show more than 90% of all systemic diseases have oral manifestations. ...

Dr. Mollie Day has spent her 17-year career in dentistry serving communities who have a difficult time accessing oral health care. Three years ago she joined Heartland Community Health Center in Lawrence, Kansas — a federally qualified health cen...

Dr. Mark Deutchman is on a mission to ensure oral health is truly considered a part of overall health — and driving that mission starts with his students. A family medicine physician, Deutchman teaches oral health curriculum in the University of ...

The importance of all facets of our health care system to the stability of our society and the well-being of all Americans cannot be overstated during this pandemic. Our country’s – and the world’s – response to COVID-19 (aka Coronavirus) will de...

The oral health care system is changing. As the industry moves in the direction of integrating medical and dental care, dentists have a unique opportunity to shape that new system.   At the Dimock Community Health Center in Boston, an integrat...

At DentaQuest, we work to advance the best practices available to improve the oral health of all. Lee Specialty Clinic in Louisville, Ky., is just that - a great example of a best practice for ensuring the best possible outcomes for people with int...