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  Community Activities: Activities for Youth | Give Kids A Smile

Community Activities

Smile Contest
Each year, newborns to 16-years-olds compete for the title of “best smile” at the WDA Smile Contest at the Wisconsin State Fair. There's even a special “tin grin” competition for kids with braces. The first 300 participants receive a goodie bag of personal oral health products and educational items.

National Children's Dental Health Month
Many WDA member dentists and and dental professionals across the state visit classrooms and host activities for area children each February to educate about and promote healthy dental hygiene habits.

Give Kids A Smile (for dental professionals)
More than 300 dentists with help from some 690 dental hygienists and assistants, dental and dental hygiene students and instructors and community volunteers, donated an estimated $730,000 in oral health care education, examinations and treatment to some 5,540 of Wisconsin’s low-income children in recognition of the sixth annual Give Kids A Smile national children’s dental access day. GKAS events in this state have provided some $2.75 million in donated dental care to 13,250 low-income children since the program was introduced in 2003.

 


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