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Time to Verify Student Eligibility
Do Your Employees Know About Our Free Online Newsletter? Use a Flyer to Get the Word Out!
Golf Outing Proceeds Announced
Facts About Delta Dental Nationwide
System Can Eliminate Social Security Numbers from Reports
Medical Histories Can Drive Dental Decisions

Time to Verify Student Eligibility

Do your employees have dependents who are college age and full-time students? Please remind them to submit Delta Dental’s Student Documentation Verification Form. 

This form must be filled out each fall school term to minimize claim processing delays.

Employees can download a copy of the Student Documentation Verification Form from our Web site at www.deltadentalnj.com. Click “Forms” on the navigation bar on the left. 

They may fax the form to (973) 285-4141. Or they may mail it to:

Delta Dental of New Jersey
Customer Service Department
Attn: Correspondence
P.O. Box 222
Parsippany, NJ 07054

There’s no need to submit any other paperwork.

Do Your Employees Know About Our Free Online Newsletter? Use a Flyer to Get the Word Out!

Thousands of subscribers already know how to make the most of their Delta Dental benefits. They subscribe to the free monthly e-mail newsletter Subscriber News. 

Subscriber News covers information subscribers need to make the most of their dental benefits. It puts valuable information at their fingertips. They can access what they need on their own without having to contact their company’s benefits department.

Delta Dental created a flyer to help you let employees know about this free newsletter. Just print and post it on bulletin boards, or distribute it through e-mail or interoffice mail. 

To request an electronic copy of this flyer, please e-mail dbelle@deltadentalnj.com.

Golf Outing Proceeds Announced

The Sixteenth Annual Delta Dental Classic raised $53,000 for Special Olympics New Jersey (SONJ). The Classic took place in June at Fiddler's Elbow Country Club in Bedminster, New Jersey

Over the past 16 years the Delta Dental Classic has raised more than $553,000 for SONJ.

SONJ helps those with mental disabilities become physically fit, productive, and respected members of society through sports training and competition.

Special thanks to all of our participants and sponsors. 

Facts About Delta Dental Nationwide

Delta Dental of New Jersey is part of the Delta Dental Plans Association (DDPA), the nation’s largest, most experienced provider of dental benefits. DDPA is a nationwide system of dental health service plans that offers quality, cost-effective dental benefit programs to millions of Americans nationwide. 

Here’s what it means to be covered by Delta Dental.

We’ve got your employees covered, no matter where they live. More than one in four Americans with dental insurance is covered by Delta Dental. That’s more than 47 million people in 81,000 groups nationwide.

Finding a participating dentist is easy. More dentists are part of the Delta Dental Premier network than any other dental network. The Delta Dental Premier network is more than twice the size of any competitor’s PPO network, with 118,000 dentists nationwide.

We do things right. The Delta Dental system processes 1.3 million dental claims each week. We processed more than 69 million claims last year, with 99% accuracy.

We offer nationwide coverage. The Delta Dental system is a network of 39 independent dental service organizations that provide benefits in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Delta Dental of New Jersey is part of this network.

We’re committed to improving people’s oral health. Our mission is to improve the overall health of the nation by making dental care more available and affordable through the expansion of dental benefits programs.

System Can Eliminate Social Security Numbers from Reports

We can help you protect your employees’ privacy. Delta Dental can remove Social Security numbers from monthly bills and reports. Please call Gio Samuels at (973) 285-4065 or Kathy Beltran at (973) 285-4119 to request this option.

Medical Histories Can Drive Dental Decisions

Dental patients should be open with their dentists about overall health issues, especially their medical histories. 

“Any information patients give about their overall health, lifestyles, therapies, medications or dietary supplementation can only improve the likelihood of successful dental diagnoses and treatment,” said Dr. Scott Navarro, dental director, Delta Dental.

Research shows a number of connections between oral health and other conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, pregnancy and osteoporosis. 

Knowing a patient’s medical history, a dentist can choose the most appropriate treatment. Also, he or she can watch for potential oral health problems that can result from a physical illness or medication.
 
Dental patients should update their dentists regularly about any medical problems or changes in their health. They should especially report any heart-related information, asthma, allergies, orthopedic surgeries, chronic illnesses or histories of serious illnesses, such as rheumatic fever. 

All prescription or over-the-counter medicine and supplements should also be discussed. Many drugs can cause dry mouth or have other oral side effects. Some can also interfere with certain dental treatments.   
            
“Dentists have been known to detect symptoms of disease that haven’t been diagnosed yet such as diabetes, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and premature birth,” said Dr. Navarro. “Dentists and primary care doctors can work together to help their patients stay healthy, but communication from the patient is crucial.”