Dental News - Born with the ‘Boomers,’ Oral Health America turns 60

Robert Selleck, DTA

Thu. 10 December 2015

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NEW YORK, N.Y., USA: Oral Health America, which is marking its 60th anniversary this year, used the Greater New York Dental Meeting as an opportunity to share its celebrating with some of the organization’s most prominent and longstanding backers — as well as some possible new supporters. The group hosted a reception Sunday evening, Nov. 29, mainly to enable some of its board members and other key people on its small administrative staff to thank the many dental companies, organizations and individual professionals who make its work — and successes — possible.

“We call this a friend-raiser,” said OHA board member George Rhodes, senior vice president of professional relations with Hambley Limited. “It’s just a way to say thinks to old friends and welcome some new friends.”

We’ve really made a big difference in oral health awareness. What we’ve been able to do is pretty amazing, especially considering our size,” Rhodes said, commenting on the organization’s accomplishments during its 60-year history. That history is summed up succinctly in a seven-minute video the organization has on its website and YouTube channel. Sharing the video was the only formal presentation on the evening’s agenda.

The video traces the organization’s history from its founding as an effort to ensure an adequate number dental instructors would be able to keep pace with a the growing demand for dentists predicted during the peak years of the Baby Boom in the mid 1950s. It ends with highlights of some of the organizations most popular and successful oral health initiatives, which include: Smiles Across America (oral disease prevention services in school-based settings); The Wisdom Tooth Project– (improving oral health of older Americans); NSTEP, the National Spit Tobacco Education Project (education on the health risks of spit tobacco); and the Campaign for Oral Health Equity, which supports equalization of mouth health with other serious health-care issues.

Individual practices, as well as some of the biggest names in the dental industry actively support and participate these and many other OHA programs at multiple levels.

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