Tag: oral health
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Smile Kentucky! celebrates 10 years and more than 100,000 children helped
Smile Kentucky! celebrates its 10-year anniversary tomorrow, representing $1 million in free dentistry and benefiting more than 100,000 students. “It’s a wonderful program,” said Arleta Watkins of Bullitt County Schools. “I’ve...
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FDA wants to reduce standard for fluoride in public drinking water
Lowering the amount of fluoride in drinking water, as proposed in January by the Food and Drug Administration, will increase medical expenses and harm the poor and the poorly educated...
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Evidence grows of links between oral health and overall health
“The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the mouth provides an even better view of the body as a whole,” The Wall Street Journal‘s Melinda Beck writes...
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3 universites and federal agency join to improve oral health in Appalachian Kentucky
With money from the Appalachian Regional Commission and some of their own, three very different Kentucky universities will collaborate “to enhance sustainable, collaborative dental health education and care” in the...
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Appalachian Regional Commission conference in Prestonsburg Sept. 7-9 to focus on improving access to health care
Featuring the insight of 42 federal, state and local health experts, officials and community leaders, the Appalachian Regional Commission‘s Healthy Families: Healthy Future conference will be held Sept. 7-9 in...
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Oral health grant for 25,000 Appalachian children should be beginning of statewide effort, Al Smith says
In an op-ed piece, veteran Kentucky journalist Al Smith praised the recent announcement that 25,000 Eastern Kentucky children in 16 counties will receive preventive dental care this school year. The...
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Promising tooth varnish that prevents tooth decay will be applied to 25,000 students in 16 Kentucky Appalachian counties
Using an innovative fluoride technique, about 25,000 children in 16 Appalachian Kentucky counties will receive preventive dental care at school, under a $1.25 million pilot project announced by Gov. Steve...
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Tooth varnish saving smiles in Clark County
To protect about 3,000 Clark County children from tooth decay, local dentists and volunteers headed to schools to apply a fluoride varnish earlier this month. “We knew this material worked,...
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Pew gives Ky. a “C” for looking after dental health of children
Kentucky received a “C” grade from the Pew Children’s Dental Campaign for meeting the dental health needs of children, the same grade it was given last year. The Courier-Journal reports the...
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Cavities can be contagious, researchers have found
A new study has found that cavities are contagious. “Just as a cold virus can be passed from one person to the next,” so can cavity-causing bacteria that cling to...