Northern Virginia Dental Society reinvents its GKAS program

The Northern Virginia Dental Society held a reimagined Give Youngsters A Smile occasion on April 22.

The dental society divided the occasion into two components. The primary day served as a triage day the place dental volunteers offered full examinations and radiographs, and likewise assessed 40 youngsters’s dental wants. For the second a part of the occasion, the youngsters have been paired with member dentists who will present the youngsters with professional bono remedy over the subsequent two years. The kids have been paired with volunteer normal dentists and specialists based mostly on the wants of the kid.

“Our society was desirous to implement this new mannequin program as many people left the GKAS program in prior years questioning if the youngsters we noticed ever sought comply with up care,” mentioned Erika A. Anderson, D.D.S., president, Northern Virginia Dental Society. “This lingering query of what occurred to those youngsters motivated us to discover a method to revise our program. To have the ability to undertake these youngsters into personal apply for 2 years permits our program to have an enduring influence on their general dental well being and continuity of their care.”

Dr. Anderson added that the occasion was a “enormous success” and mentioned the society hopes its reinvented GKAS program good points some traction nationwide. Northern Virginia Dental Society Government Director Cathy Griffanti mentioned the dental society’s purpose is for the adoptive practices to proceed to supply care of the youngsters after the two-year interval and that it additionally hopes that the youngsters’s mother and father will see the significance and worth of excellent oral well being care.

For extra details about the Northern Virginia Dental Society program mannequin, contact Ms. Griffanti at cgriffanti@nvds.org or 1-703-642-5298.

The ADA is ready to present steering, assets and product donations to GKAS applications that register their occasions due to the beneficiant assist of Henry Schein, Colgate and the ADA Basis.

To study extra about Give Youngsters A Smile go to ADA.org/GKAS.