Will you Give Kids A Smile on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010? More than 365 Wisconsin dentists participated this past year.
Many offices have already started planning for next year's GKAS outreach and the Wisconsin Dental Association wants to help you make your event a success.
Early planning helps avoid missed details, eases stress and pressure and provides a fun and successful day.
The WDA Web site offers planning tools that are helpful to both GKAS program veterans and new volunteers.
Registering your event with the WDA is your ticket for more resources to help promote your event, such as:
- Your GKAS event being highlighted in a WDA press release
- Free "Sip All Day, Get Decay" stickers for your patients
- Free pediatric dental records
See below and watch future GKAS e-Updates for more details.
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Register online for chance at free products
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Be sure to register your event online today with both the WDA and American Dental Association. It only takes a few minutes and helps us track participation and highlight, through pre-event press releases to policymakers and the media, the difficulty many poor children in our state face in accessing dental care.
Your registration is also your ticket to free event resources:
- Dental products
Sign up with the ADA by Nov. 13 to apply for dental product resources. Please note available quantities are limited. GKAS sponsors are very generous, but demand always exceeds supply. No one should plan a GKAS program based on receipt of free products.
- FREE “Sip All Day, Get Decay” stickers
Register with the WDA by Jan. 11, 2010 to get FREE stickers to give to the children you’ll be treating.
- Dental records
The Dental Record, A Division of WDA Professional Services is once again providing two of its forms – Dental Medical History and Children’s Clinical Examination (also available in Spanish) – for use in conjunction with GKAS.
You must register your event online with the WDA to take advantage of these special offers.
The WDA would like to extend a big “THANK YOU” to Rock River Dental and Dr. Kenneth J. Scholz. They were the first two to register their events online with the WDA. We appreciate their prompt efforts to keep us informed.
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Finding kids in need
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There are several resources available to help you locate children of low-income families in your area, including:
- Public school nurses
- Local public health departments or government agencies
- Head Start
- Boys and Girls Clubs
- Youth and community organizations
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Please contact cooperating organizations early to provide them with an appropriate time frame for identifying prospective patients.
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Are you holding a prescreening day?
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If you are holding a prescreening day for your GKAS event, please indicate as such when registering online with the WDA.
The WDA is planning to send out pre-event press releases promoting 2010 GKAS days.
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New tools for inviting your legislators
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The WDA encourages participating dental offices to invite their local legislators to their GKAS event. This shows them how you help low-income children in your community and raises awareness about the unmet oral health needs of our youngest, most vulnerable residents.
It is also a perfect opportunity to educate them on the basic differences between the medical and dental care delivery models and the important connection between oral health and non-oral health.
The WDA is developing new tools to help you invite your legislators to your 2010 program. More details will be in the next GKAS e-Update.
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GKAS does NOT qualify as CE
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The Dentistry Examining Board confirmed GKAS volunteer hours do NOT count toward the mandatory 30 hours of continuing education dentists need for licensure renewal in 2011.
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