ASDOH gives kids a smile
Posted: January 28, 2011Sixteen low-income elementary school children in Greater Phoenix will receive comprehensive oral care thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Phoenix Suns Charities to ATSU’s Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health.
The grant will allow children who attended ASDOH’s annual Give Kids a Smile Day in April 2010, but who needed more care than could be given in one day, to receive continued restorative oral care. The grant also helps enhance students’ skills in pediatric dentistry.
A service event, Give Kids a Smile Day is held in partnership with the Arizona Dental Association and its non-profit affiliate, the Arizona Dental Foundation. Individual and community volunteers including Valley dentists and ASDOH students, faculty, and staff participate in this daylong event.
“This grant is a tribute to our mission and instills in our students a commitment to public health and to serve people in need,” said ASDOH Dean Jack Dillenberg, D.D.S., M.P.H.