Golf offers some unique opportunities to boost your oral health, vision health overall wellness.
6 Sports-Related Vision Skills for Athletes
Whether you play competitively or in a rec league, good sports-related vision is essential. You’ll get the best results when you can see well! There are 6 types of sports-related vision skills that you—or athletes of any age—will find important to test for and keep in tip-top shape.
Examining Oral Health and Wellness in Arizona
The Examining Oral Health and Wellness in Arizona 2023 report is a state-wide look into Arizonans behaviors and opinions relating to oral health. Delta Dental of Arizona requested the research, which included 300 Arizonans ages 18+ and 300 Arizona parents of children 12 and under. Here are 3 key findings from the report:
How to Boost Your Health With Sleep
When you’ve had a great night’s sleep, you wake up feeling rested, alert and ready to tackle the day. That’s because your body and brain have had a chance to recover! On the other hand, a lack of sleep will leave you feeling tired and can increase your risk for a wide range of health problems, impacting your mood, heart, physical health, oral health and more.
7 Ways to Fight Stress and Improve Your Health
Stress is more than just a burden. Over 1 in 4 Americans claim it shuts down their ability to function most days, according to one report. But the dangers go beyond loss of productivity. Stress is linked to headaches, depression, dementia, high blood pressure, heart issues and more. It can even harm your oral and vision health.
Are Cost Concerns Delaying Dental Cleanings? Survey Says Yes
Public opinion research released from the Delta Dental Institute found that U.S. adults were more likely to report that concerns about inflation and rising prices, rather than concerns about COVID-19, prompted them to delay oral health care. The poll found that 95% of adults agree oral health is essential to overall health. Almost 6 in […]
5 Side Effects of Mask Mouth & How to Fix Them
Face masks are a good defense against the spread of COVID-19. They’re easy to find, come in fashion forward fabrics and help keep people safe when they need to meet with others. But face masks can also cause some pesky side effects, sometimes called “mask mouth.” Here are 5 side effects of mask mouth and […]
Is Carbonated Water Bad for Your Teeth?
Will the Fizzy Water ‘Bubble’ Ever Pop? What’s the Deal with Carbonated Water? The beverage aisle at your local grocery store looks different today than it did five years ago. Remember when there were just rows of soda, a few jugs of juice and stacks of boring bottled water wrapped in plastic? Those days are […]
The Best and Worst Ballpark Foods for Your Teeth
“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out to the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and……a smoked BBQ sandwich with mac and cheese.” Wait. That’s not how that catchy tune goes, but these are just a few of the delicious foods you might find at spring training stadiums across the Valley. From street […]
3 Reasons Giving Back Is Good for Your Heart Health
Do you remember cutting out construction paper hearts at school each February? Your scissors traced each half until a perfect heart fluttered onto your desk. You’d repeat this until you had enough hearts to glue on a mailbox filled with Valentine’s Day cards. After picking out the right card for each classmate, how did you […]