OHA SUPPORTS MAY 4TH MEDICAL DENTAL DIALOGUES ON DIABETES

Oral Health America has an historic commitment to promoting open dialogues on the critical relationship between oral health and total health.

Building on our relationship with Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, OHA is honored to be a Silver Supporter of the upcoming symposium, “Diabetes and Oral Disease: Implications for Health Professionals.“ The symposium presented in concert with Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York Academy of Sciences will be held on Wednesday, May 4, 2011.

Click here to read an interview conducted by Beth Truett, OHA’s President and CEO with Dr. David Albert, Columbia U College of Dental Medicine — a member of the symposium’s Scientific Organizing Committee.

Complete information regarding the symposium, approved for 6.5 CME and CDE can be found at www.nyas.org; this includes early bird registration, which closes April 8.

WINTER’S END BRINGS SMILES ACROSS MINNESOTA TO MOORHEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT

Kristina Hein, Brand and Marketing Director, United Way of Cass-Clay; OHA’s Amanda Ciatti; Ann Johnson, Executive Director, Delta Dental of Minnesota Trust and Co-Chair of Smiles Across Minnesota; Jill Skarvold, Director of Learning Services, Moorhead School District; and Sarah Wovcha, Executive Director of Children’s Dental Services and Co-Chair of Smiles Across Minnesota, pose with the Tooth Fairy at the program launch.

OHA recently joined our Smiles Across America® grantee Smiles Across Minnesota (SAM) in wintery Moorhead, MN, to celebrate the expansion of its statewide preventive dental program to the Moorhead School District.

At the event, SAM Co-Chair Sarah Wovcha, JD, MPH, Executive Director of Children’s Dental Services, spoke to program partners, funders, including Delta Dental of Minnesota, and local media. “School-based dental services are cost effective,” she said. “Children receiving dental sealants in school-based programs have 60 percent less decay for up to five years.”

According to a recent survey conducted by the Minnesota Department of Health, 64 percent of the state’s third graders have dental sealants, compared to 23 percent nationally–SAM is making a difference!

Read the full press release here

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“Our services are the only dentistry that 78% of our children receive.  This year, we did not receive any additional grant monies to buy supplies.  Without SAA’s gracious support we wouldn’t be able to reach and treat as many children as we do.” Jill Barber, Athens, OH County Health Department School Based Sealant Program

With the end of the school year on the horizon, your dental supplies might be running low. Don’t worry! Oral Health America is here to help!  If you are a non-profit provider and need more supplies to get through the last few months, please fill out the product donation request form here. For additional information, contact Melissa Hoebbel. Happy Spring!!!

Septodont’s Marketing Director Chris Corsette, (pictured here with OHA’s President and CEO Beth Truett and Associate Director of External Affairs Tony Stefanou, DMD) recently presented OHA with a generous donation following a three-month campaign. During the months of December, January, and February, Septodont donated 10 percent of every $500 spent on its N’Durance Composites to OHA. Thank you to Septodont, and to the dental practices that purchased composites in support of OHA!

Oral Health America is sending our best wishes to our dental community colleagues who live, work, or conduct business in Japan. We particularly recognize the employees of GC America, J Morita, Sunstar, and Tokuyama, and their families. We hope for a speedy return to safety and normalcy.