Healthier mouths, healthier employees
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Use this toolkit to help your employees care for their oral health
* Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Oral Health Fast Facts (January 25, 2021): cdc.gov.
Oral health is an important piece in the puzzle that is our overall well-being. It can also have an impact on workplace productivity, with an average of $45 billion lost each year due to untreated dental issues.* Talk to your employees about the importance of a healthy mouth.
Topic 4 Gum disease
Topic 3 Cavities
Topic 2 Preventive care
Topic 1 Dental insurance
Toolkit resources
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Oral Health Fast Facts (January 25, 2021): cdc.gov. 2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Cavities (January 25, 2021): cdc.gov. 3 American Academy of Periodontology: Gum Disease and Other Diseases (September 2023): perio.org.
This toolkit was created to help you communicate with your employees about the details of their dental plan, the importance of preventive dental care, and how to create healthy habits. We have provided digital and printable assets for each of the topics, or units, below to help you encourage your employees to focus on preventive dental care and take advantage of their benefits. These units can be used in any order, but allowing 1 to 2 weeks between promoting each one will give employees time to put the information and tips into practice.
Empower your employees to use their dental benefits
Topic 1 — Understanding dental insurance and its value
This unit focuses on helping employees understand their dental benefits, including what services are covered and how. This can help ease employees’ concerns and give them confidence and peace of mind when seeking dental care.
Topic 2 — The importance of preventive dental care
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cavities are one of the greatest untreated health issues.2 This unit emphasizes the importance of addressing dental conditions like cavities early and covers how employees’ benefits can help.
Topic 3 — Preventing cavities
Topic 4 — Gum disease and chronic conditions
Oral conditions like cavities and gum disease are most likely to affect overall health and quality of life.1 Use the resources in this unit to help employees understand the importance of routine dental visits and at-home prevention.
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Studies show a connection between gum disease and the progression or increased risk of health conditions like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.3 The resources in this unit will dive into this relationship and provide tips for preventing gum disease.
Video
These three flyers help your employees understand how their dental benefits work. You can attach the flyers to an email, post them in the workplace, or upload them to your intranet. Choose the link(s) below to download.
Download PPO
Download Managed Care
Flyers
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This email goes over the value of dental benefits and touches on the coverage your employees can expect when they need care. Employees are encouraged to visit a custom webpage to learn more about how their plan works and taking care of their oral health.
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Email
Link
This all-in-one resource includes tips for dental visits as well as information on how dental coverage works, preventive dental care, and types of dentistry. Include a link to this webpage on your intranet or in a newsletter.
Dental health webpage
PPO/Managed Care plan overview: PPO | Managed Care Taking advantage of two dental plans: Download Coverage for in-progress dental work: Download
Post this video to your intranet to reinforce the importance of preventive dental health and the benefits of Anthem dental coverage to your employees. Copy the link below to share: https://bcove.video/3wsww7b
1. Understand dental insurance and its value
2. The importance of preventive dental care
3. Preventing cavities
4. Gum disease and chronic conditions
These two flyers can be used to emphasize the importance of preventive dental care and caring for overall health. Attach the flyers to an email, post them in the workplace, or upload them to your intranet.
This email reviews the importance of preventive dental care. Employees are invited to visit a custom webpage to learn about preventive dental visits and practicing healthy habits at home.
Preventive dental care: Download Enhanced dental care: Essential Choice | Prime Complete
Post this video to your intranet to reinforce the importance of preventive dental health and the benefits of Anthem dental coverage to your employees. Copy the link below to share: https://bcove.video/3nXB1yR
This flyer details the importance of preventive dental care at every age and stage of life. It also goes over what can be done at home to maintain a healthy mouth. Attach the flyer to an email, post it in the workplace, or upload it to your intranet.
Flyer
This email focuses on how your employees can prevent cavities through regular dental visits, preventive treatments like fluoride or sealants, and healthy daily habits.
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Podcast
This flyer goes over the additional dental benefits available to employees with certain chronic medical conditions. It also touches on why good oral healthcare is so important in these situations. Attach the flyer to an email, post it in the workplace, or upload it to your intranet.
This email brings attention to how oral health and gum disease can affect the management of chronic health conditions. There are also a variety of tips included on how to prevent gum disease with good oral and general health habits.
This podcast episode discusses the connection between oral health and chronic diseases, as well as how to cope with a fear of visiting the dentist. Copy and paste the provided HTML code to embed the podcast on your intranet site or link to it within an email.
Download: Essential Choice | Prime Complete
Text message
Send to your employees as a reminder to schedule their next preventive dental visit. Copy and paste the message below to send.
"Take care of your health by scheduling your next visit to the dentist. To find a dentist in your plan’s network, go to: https://sydneyapp.onelink.me/lS55/lnai0y29"
With this toolkit, you can lead your employees in the direction of better dental and overall health. Remember, the order and timing of each unit is not nearly as important as getting the information out there. Choose where you want to begin and use the resources provided to help you along the way. You can also encourage employees who are Anthem members to download the Sydney℠ Health app or visit anthem.com for more details on their dental benefits and tips for good oral health.
Strong oral health habits make a difference
Sydney Health is offered through an arrangement with Carelon Digital Platforms, a separate company offering mobile application services on behalf of your health plan. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is the trade name of: In Colorado: Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service, Inc. HMO products underwritten by HMO Colorado, Inc. In Connecticut: Anthem Health Plans, Inc. In Indiana: Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. In Georgia: Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc. and Community Care Health Plan of Georgia, Inc. In Kentucky: Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky, Inc. In Maine: Anthem Health Plans of Maine, Inc. In Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area): RightCHOICE® Managed Care, Inc. (RIT), Healthy Alliance® Life Insurance Company (HALIC), and HMO Missouri, Inc. RIT and certain affiliates administer non-HMO benefits underwritten by HALIC and HMO benefits underwritten by HMO Missouri, Inc. RIT and certain affiliates only provide administrative services for self-funded plans and do not underwrite benefits. In Nevada: Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service, Inc. HMO products underwritten by HMO Colorado, Inc., dba HMO Nevada. In New Hampshire: Anthem Health Plans of New Hampshire, Inc. HMO plans are administered by Anthem Health Plans of New Hampshire, Inc. and underwritten by Matthew Thornton Health Plan, Inc. In 17 southeastern counties of New York: Anthem HealthChoice Assurance, Inc., and Anthem HealthChoice HMO, Inc. In these same counties Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield HP is the trade name of Anthem HP, LLC. In Ohio: Community Insurance Company. In Virginia: Anthem Health Plans of Virginia, Inc. trades as Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and its affiliate HealthKeepers, Inc. trades as Anthem HealthKeepers providing HMO coverage, and their service area is all of Virginia except for the City of Fairfax, the Town of Vienna, and the area east of State Route 123. In Wisconsin: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin (BCBSWI) underwrites or administers PPO and indemnity policies and underwrites the out-of-network benefits in POS policies offered by Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation (Compcare) or Wisconsin Collaborative Insurance Corporation (WCIC). Compcare underwrites or administers HMO or POS policies; WCIC underwrites or administers Well Priority HMO or POS policies. Independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Anthem is a registered trademark of Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. 1055496MUEENABS 06/23
