Category: Community Involvement

The Maumee Valley Dental Society goes into area schools to teach children about oral health. Oral health education events qualify as Give Kids A Smile events. Give Kids A Smile event registration will take place in October, so now is the time to begin pla Give Kids A Smile is a national access to care and oral health education program where ... [continue reading]

Dental team members Doris Maynard and Marlene Zaboura along with Dr. Libby Buckley and her daughter Avery at their Give Kids A Smile event. Buckley held her first Give Kids A Smile event this year, where she and her team saw 25 students at a local school. This was my first year participating in the Give Kids a Smile (GKAS) program since graduating ... [continue reading]

Ohio Dental Association President Dr. Kevin Laing of Van Wert performs an oral exam at the Van Wert Smiles clinic for the Give Kids A Smile event. Volunteers provided a total of $20,080 in donated dental services at the event. The Ohio Dental Association hosted Give Kids A Smile kickoff events at two locations this year in honor of the ... [continue reading]

Nowadays, during the first couple of weeks of dental school at The Ohio State University you are presented with all of the programs offered to you as extracurricular opportunities. Some social like Psi Omega Dental Fraternity, some educational like the Dental Entrepreneur Society, some with political focuses like our great ASDA chapter at Ohio ... [continue reading]

Mercy Medical Center in Canton worked with migrant children to provide dental check-ups for its Give Kids A Smile event in July. Give Kids A Smile is a national access to care initiative where dentists donate dental care to underserved children that are in need of care. Give Kids A Smile events and initiatives take place throughout the year, and ... [continue reading]

Dr. Denise Antalis at her office’s Give Kids A Smile event in Cambridge. My practice has been hosting Give Kids A Smile events for the past three years in our office in Cambridge, Ohio.  On that day, my team, other volunteers and I donate our time and services to children under the age of 18 who are accompanied by an adult.  Each child ... [continue reading]

Children receive oral health care instruction at the 2015 Give Kids A Smile Ohio kick-off event at Mercy Medical Center in Canton. This year's kick-off event will be Feb. 5 at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. The 14th Annual Give Kids A Smile Ohio kick-off event will be Feb. 5 at Case Western Reserve ... [continue reading]

Give Kids A Smile is a national access to care initiative where dentists donate dental care to underserved children that are in desperate need of dental intervention.  But many of the Ohio Give Kids A Smile events have an added benefit: dental and auxiliary students gain real-life experience. The Ohio State University College of Dentistry ... [continue reading]

Volunteers from the Stark County Dental Society and Mercy Medical Center general practice resident program provided free screenings to about 200 students from Gibbs Elementary at the Give Kids a Smile Ohio kickoff event. Volunteer dentists from the Stark County Dental Society provided free dental care to nearly 200 children ... [continue reading]

Kids at the 2014 Give Kids a Smile kick-off event. This year’s kick-off event will be Feb. 6 at the Mercy Medical Center in Canton. The 13th Annual Give Kids a Smile kick-off event will be held on Feb. 6 at the Mercy Medical Center in Canton. The kick-off event is one of many Give Kids a Smile programs that will take place ... [continue reading]