Dental Care: Kids Dental

Utah is making strides toward healthier teeth, with two separate benefits for children who need dental work. The annual Give Kids a Smile event donated over $100,000 worth of free dental work to children in need, and during the last week in March California’s Denti-Cal program promises basic oral health care coverage for more than 5.1 million children from low-income families. But nearly 60 percent of these children are unable to get any dental care because of the state government’s history of The “Give Kids a Smile” annual event offered dental care, entertainment and lunch to almost 300 children at the UTHealth School of Dentistry on February 13 and 14 when the school held the event in partnership with the Greater Houston Dental Society. A joint legislative hearing scheduled for Tuesday in Sacramento will examine a state auditor’s report that found more than half the children in California’s Medicaid dental program are not getting regular dental care and the number of dental providers Two hundred ten Aspen and Basalt second-graders learned that and more at the Children’s Dental Fair on Feb. 20 at Aspen High School. In celebration of Children’s Dental Health Month, the children had a day of tooth brushing, flossing and nutritional The University of Washington Center for Pediatric Dentistry is hosting Dental Home Day on May 20 – a day of free dental services for children. Services that day will be free of charge, plus, for those children participating on May 20, services will be .

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Free dental screenings for children will be offered later this month at Cuyahoga Community College's Metropolitan campus in Cleveland as part of the annual "Give Kids A Smile Day," a national campaign begun in 2003 by the American Dental In the parenting perfection Olympics, there are many events: organic cooking, vegetable hiding, extra-curricular overscheduling and vicarious honour rolling are a few popular ones. I’ve never cared much about any of those, but I do have a “sport” in Girl Scout Troop 9297 celebrated National Children’s Dental Health Month in February learning about oral health care and collecting oral products for at-risk youth. To better understand the importance of oral health care, the scouts invited Dr. Shilo As health experts and politicians in Sacramento this week debated the merits of raising Medi-Cal reimbursements, the problem with access to dental care has hit close to home in Stanislaus County. Jennie Boyd of Ceres said a Medi-Cal health plan twice .