Health & wellness
BY KAREN CHANEY
Health & Wellness Edition 2026
Community Impact ’s Health & Wellness Edition Happy New Year and welcome to our second annual Health & Wellness Edition! This guide is a resource to those looking to live a healthier 2026. The goal of this guide is to bring you news on full-body wellness, developing healthy habits and preventative care. In this edition, you will nd stories about the importance of dental health, where you can go locally to get outside and some of the latest trends happening in the health and wellness industry. All these stories are written by our local team of journalists. You can nd all these stories and more are on our website and in our free daily newsletter.
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Dr. Camelia Cooper talks dental practices Camelia Cooper, DDS, is a dentist who owns and operates Sweet Tooth Dental Loft in Frisco. She obtained her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Sweet Tooth Dental Loft opened in 2013. Dr. Cooper answered questions from Community Impact about best dental care practices and the importance of dental care. Answers have been edited for length and clarity. If an adult has never been to the dentist, why would you say it’s important to make an appointment? It’s always a good time to start. There are a num- ber of reasons an adult is visiting the dentist for the rst time including parents not having the money or people from other countries not having access. Sometimes people just don’t know you should come, even if it’s not hurting. It’s always good to get a checkup—to know that your gums are healthy, get
a few tips and tricks, and then we can just maintain and keep an eye on everything to make sure it stays healthy. Why is it important to take care of our teeth? The teeth are part of the body. Nowadays, teeth have leaned more towards aesthetics and not health. A lot of times we can see di erent diseases in the mouth. If you have diabetes, then a lot of times your gums are going to manifest di erently. If you have vitamin de ciencies, we tend to see that in the mouth. We have it in our head that we go to the physician for certain things and at certain intervals in life, but in dentistry, I feel like we’ve not drilled that in as much as being standard. Certain aspects of dentistry have gotten sensationalized, starting with extreme makeovers. Everyone wants pretty teeth, but don’t care what is underneath them, or the foundation for the gums.
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8838 Coleman Blvd., Frisco www.sweettoothdentalloft.com
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