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- Smiling Schools Tooth-varnish Program Expands To 10 More Counties; Now In 40
Kentucky's Smiling Schools program is expanding to 10 more counties and will now provide its free preventive tooth varnishing treatments to children in 40 elementary schools, most in Appalachia, according to a state press release. Gov. Steve Beshear...
- Uk Students In National Program To Educate Kids About Oral Health
A University of Kentucky undergraduate dental group was recently spotlighted by the National Children's Oral Health Foundation for their passion to share oral-health education with elementary and middle schools in Kentucky, according to a UK...
- Dr. Gene Paxton Lewis Dies; He Was A Leader In Public Health Dentistry In Kentucky And The Nation
Dr. Gene Paxton Lewis, a dentist who did the first survey of Kentucky's oral health and helped create the state's oral health coalition and its first mobile dental office, died Feb. 12 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was 78. "Lewis spent more than...
- Looking For 'a Few Short-term Wins' To Start, Kentucky Oral Health Coalition Formally Reorganizes
By Amy Wilson Kentucky Health News LOUISVILLE, July 25 ? There was no whitewashing the ruinous state of the state's teeth Wednesday when the Kentucky Oral Health Coalition formally reorganized with the goal of fixing as much as they can as fast as...
- New Oral Health Coalition Expected To Spur Changes In State
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News For the past 30 years, Dr. Fred Howard of Harlan has been seating patients in his blue dental chair and telling them to open up. When they do, he's seen all kinds of scenarios, from toddlers whose teeth are already...
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Woodford County coalition formed to improve dental health
The Woodford County Oral Health Coalition has partnered with nine local dentists to give free dental care to 16 elementary students in the Woodford County public school system.
On Jan. 27, coalition members and Woodford County Judge-Executive John Coyle (far left in photo from The Woodford Sun) proclaimed February as dental health month. Coalition members encouraged citizens to brush and floss every day.
The Oral Health Coalition was formed after receiving a federal grant from the Kentucky Oral Health Program, the Sun's Bob Vlach reports. Woodford County children were also helped by the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, which provided free dental screenings for elementary school students in October.
- Smiling Schools Tooth-varnish Program Expands To 10 More Counties; Now In 40
Kentucky's Smiling Schools program is expanding to 10 more counties and will now provide its free preventive tooth varnishing treatments to children in 40 elementary schools, most in Appalachia, according to a state press release. Gov. Steve Beshear...
- Uk Students In National Program To Educate Kids About Oral Health
A University of Kentucky undergraduate dental group was recently spotlighted by the National Children's Oral Health Foundation for their passion to share oral-health education with elementary and middle schools in Kentucky, according to a UK...
- Dr. Gene Paxton Lewis Dies; He Was A Leader In Public Health Dentistry In Kentucky And The Nation
Dr. Gene Paxton Lewis, a dentist who did the first survey of Kentucky's oral health and helped create the state's oral health coalition and its first mobile dental office, died Feb. 12 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was 78. "Lewis spent more than...
- Looking For 'a Few Short-term Wins' To Start, Kentucky Oral Health Coalition Formally Reorganizes
By Amy Wilson Kentucky Health News LOUISVILLE, July 25 ? There was no whitewashing the ruinous state of the state's teeth Wednesday when the Kentucky Oral Health Coalition formally reorganized with the goal of fixing as much as they can as fast as...
- New Oral Health Coalition Expected To Spur Changes In State
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News For the past 30 years, Dr. Fred Howard of Harlan has been seating patients in his blue dental chair and telling them to open up. When they do, he's seen all kinds of scenarios, from toddlers whose teeth are already...