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When we talk about diabetes, we talk about sugar intake – and for good reason. Regulating blood sugar is crucial to staying healthy with diabetes. But as medical knowledge has increased, the connection between diabetes and oral health has become clear – and we’ve done our best to help people understand the connection.

Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation’s recent grants to serve as the signature sponsor of the Minnesota Dental Association’s Mission of Mercy along with a grant to Family HealthCare, join the efforts of five additional regional grants totaling more than $1 million to various programs to bring better oral health to Moorhead and the northwestern Minnesota region.

Whether you call it smokeless tobacco, spit tobacco, chew, snuff, pinch or dip, all kinds of chewing tobacco are more harmful and addictive than you think. While evidence shows that smokeless tobacco may be less dangerous than cigarettes, long-term use of chewing tobacco can cause serious health problems. There’s no safe level of tobacco use.