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New practice in Indian Land will have YEC members beaming, too.

Carolina Smile Dentistry LLC – the name has a special meaning to Dr. Anjali Seth, DDS.

A native Indo-Canadian, she notes, “We love the word ‘smile.'” In fact, Dr. Seth says, everyone’s favorite facial expression influenced the name she chose for her first daughter. “That’s what Muskaan’s name means in my language, Hindi.”

Their second daughter’s name, Kashish, means “attraction,” she adds. Appropriately, their mother is all about helping patients sport attractive smiles at her new practice in Indian Land.

The girls played a role in their mother’s decision to open her own practice, says Dr. Seth, a dentist for 11 years. She and her husband, Ajay, started their family when they lived in Toronto, Canada. Ajay came to the Charlotte area to work for Time Warner Cable eight years ago. Dr. Seth and the girls followed two years later.

While raising Muskaan, now 13, and Kashish, 9, she worked as an associate dentist at the Union County, N.C., health department. “The kids were little. Now they’ve grown up a little bit – one is in fourth grade, one is in seventh – so I think it’s time for me to take care of the patients now,” says Dr. Seth, beaming with understandable pride.

Her sparkling new office at 8390 Charlotte Hwy., across from Indian Land High School, opened in early August. She and Ajay, who has helped with marketing, have invested in state-of-the-art equipment – delivered with a warm, personal touch aimed at making a trip to the dentist as close to pleasant as possible.

“This is a general dentistry practice, where we do everything like a root canal, crowns, bridges, fillings, dentures and extractions,” Dr. Seth says. “We see kids one year and up – all the way up to 99!”

York Electric Cooperative members will smile, too, when they visit Dr. Seth – because their Co-op Connections card entitles them to Healthy Savings Discounts. That’s because Carolina Smile Dentistry is part of the Humana Dental Access network, one of the health-care provider networks involved in the Healthy Savings Discounts part of the Co-op Connections program.

“Our clinic is enrolled with Humana and would be happy to have your members as patients,” Dr. Seth says, adding, “Being new, you don’t have to wait long for appointment times.” Now, there’s something to smile about!

Prescription savings keep growing

York Electric members have now saved almost $683,000 on prescriptions using YEC’s membership benefit card, Co-op Connections, since we introduced the member benefit program in May 2009.

But prescription discounts are just one example of the Healthy Savings Discounts part of Co-op Connections program. You can also save on vision care, dental, hearing aids, lab work, imaging and chiropractor visits at participating providers.

The Co-op Connections cards distributed in South Carolina Living in spring 2012 and again earlier this year include special logos and codes on the back that enable members to obtain these Healthy Savings Discounts through provider networks such as Humana Dental Access, Coast to Coast Vision and others.

Don’t make another appointment for health care services until you’ve seen how the Co-op Connections program’s Healthy Savings Discounts can help you!

Learn more about Co-op Connections and discover Healthy Savings Discounts—and other savings offered to co-op members through more than 25,000 local and national deals on products and services.
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South Carolina co-op members chalk up record prescription discounts.

$2.8 MILLION—that’s how much members of South Carolina’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives saved on prescriptions in 2012 using their Co-op Connections cards. It was another record year for member savings with the discount card. Total savings hit $2,823,086.10, beating the 2011 tally by about $400,000. Total savings since the program began in South Carolina in 2007 now stands at $9,395,335.20, according to Touchstone Energy, the nationwide electric co-op alliance that administers the Co-op Connections program. Locally, York Electric members have saved $624,830 since the co-op introduced the program in May 2009. Our members saved $167,165 in 2012 and, already this year, have reduced their prescription costs by another $62,334.

Don’t forget your other Healthy Savings Discounts!

Last spring, York Electric and other Touchstone Energy Cooperatives added even more savings to the Co-op Connections card with Healthy Savings Discounts. This program can save cardholders money on dental, vision, hearing, lab work, imaging and chiropractor visits. Best of all, you get these great benefits for free! York Electric issued new Co-op Connections cards with special logos and codes on the back that enable members to obtain the Healthy Savings Discounts. If you’ve misplaced your new card, you can go online to Connections.coop to print one. For those without easy access to the Internet, computers or printers, we’ve printed a clip-and-save card in the May 2013 issue of South Carolina Living magazine. Go to HealthySavings.coop to locate participating providers in your area. Please note: The first time you use it, you must set up an account using the member number 142407524, as listed on the back of the Co-op Connections card. After signing up (click on “Log In/Sign Up”), you can then access the “Locate Providers” search function. Don’t make another appointment or buy another pair of glasses until you’ve seen what the Co-op Connections program’s Healthy Savings Discounts can save you! Has using your Co-op Connections card saved you big money? Email YEC’s marketing department at or call (803) 628-5541. We’ll share your story and help other co-op members learn to take advantage of the many available Co-op Connections discounts.