Give Kids A Smile!

On Valentine's Day, my school was one of the sites that hosted Give Kids A Smile Day. It is a volunteer program where dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, and many more volunteered to perform x-rays, cleanings, sealants, fillings, oral health education, translation, and more for underpriveleged kids in the Utah Valley. It was a great turn out & a lot of fun to help out! I taught at the Oral health Education station, which felt very rewarding. Over time, I have acquired pretty good conversational and dental Spanish. This was especially helpful because the majority of those that came were only spoke Spanish. I was teaching the kids all about gingivitis, how you get cavities, preventing cavities, daily care, nutritional conuseling, etc., but a huge part was teaching the parents what they were supposed to be doing for their children. Dental caries is one of the most preventable diseases, but yet it is one of the most chronic childhood diseases. It comes from lack of care and lack of knowledge. It's one thing for the dentists to continually fix their cavities, but another thing to prevent more decay from happening, and putting their oral health into their hands.

Waiting room with some of the patients that day

Brittany, Me, & Kris
We were all given these different colored big smile shirts for volunteering.


My festive Valentine's Day socks in honor of the Love Day, thanks for the socks Mom!