| Program
Title: |
In-Classroom
Kindergarten and 3rd Grade Dental Health Education Program |
| Location: |
Montcalm Area Intermediate
School District |
| Contact: |
Carol
Hanba |
| Brief
Description: |
Classrooms are visited
for 30 minutes by a dental hygienist. Each child receives
an oral care kit containing a toothbrush, toothpaste,
floss, and (if funds allow) a brushing timer. The program
reaches approximately 2000 children every year. |
| Program Title: |
Smiles Across Michigan |
| Location: |
Statewide |
| Contact: |
Andrea
Goodwin |
|
Brief Description:
|
Screenings, surveys and focus groups
conducted throughout Michigan with adults who have
developmental disabilities for the purpose of collecting
data on the oral health of these individuals.
|
| Program
Title: |
Kalamazoo County
Health and Community Services Portable Off-Site Dental
Program |
| Location: |
Kalamazoo County
|
| Contact: |
Leslie
Timmerman |
|
Brief Description:
|
We provide exams, oral screenings,
prophys, fluoride varnish application and sealants
to qualifying children in Head Start and in the Kalamazoo
Public School System supported by Kalamazoo Communities
in Schools. Each child receives a toothbrush, paste
and floss.
|
| Program
Title: |
Branch/Hillsdale/St.
Joseph Health Department Dental Clinic/Michigan Community
Dental Clinics |
| Location: |
721 6th Ave.,
Suite B,
Three Rivers, MI (St. Joseph Co.)
(269) 273-2617
|
| Contact: |
Dr.
Lisandra Soto |
|
Brief Description:
|
Population served: Low income uninsured
( under the 200% level of poverty), Medicaid, Healthy
Kids, MiChild
Services: Preventive, Restorative, Removable prosthodontics,
limited Endodontics, Surgical services (extractions).
|
Please email Kacie Wiersma at kwiersma@mohc.org
if you know of an oral health-related, community-based program
you would like to see listed.
|
