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September 18, 2025

The state of your gums and teeth can impact your risk for various health conditions—and vice-versa. Here’s how to protect yourself. 

Our oral health care is under attack. 

Whether it’s bans on fluoride in public water, cuts to Medicaid, or the elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s entire Division of Oral Health, experts are sounding an alarm that America’s oral health is facing a number of threats on several fronts.


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