Dental News - NCOHF grants support community-based children’s care

Fred Michmershuizen, DTA

Mon. 19 April 2010

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CHARLOTTE/NEW YORK, USA: The money raised by National Children’s Oral Health Foundation: America’s Toothfairy is being put to good use. NCOHF recently announced it has awarded grants totaling US$109,050 to eight not-for-profit community, university and hospital-based dental programs nationwide.

The grants are as follows:

Catholic Healthcare West, Chandler, AZ, US$15,000
Community Oral Health Services, Salinas, CA, US$15,000
Sonrisas Community Dental Center, Half Moon Bay, CA US$9,050
The Children’s Dental Center, Inglewood, CA, US$15,000
The Gary Center, La Habra, CA, US$10,000
Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN, US$15,000
Community Dentistry on Wheels, Largo, MD, US$15,000
A Fluoride Connection Non Profit Corp., Madison, WI, US$15,000

According to the NCOHF, the grant recipients are members of the growing Affiliate network delivering comprehensive oral health preventive, restorative and educational programs to children from vulnerable populations. Through continued support from financial and product contributions, as well as technical resources, the Affiliate network has reached more than 1 million children since 2006, NCOHF said.

“It is only through the continued generosity of NCOHF individual, organizational and corporate partners that America’s Toothfairy grant awards are possible,” said Fern Ingber, NCOHF president and CEO, in expressing gratitude to supporters. “We are honored to serve as a comprehensive resource provider for our Affiliate network of nonprofit healthcare facilities, and we are grateful that so many donors share in the NCOHF mission to eliminate children’s unnecessary suffering from pediatric dental disease.”

A representative of A Fluoride Connection Non Profit Corp., one of the grant recipients, expressed gratitude to NCOHF for the financial support.

“We work in an area that has many rural poor farm families. Many don’t qualify for the state-offered dental health plan, and as a result our organization receives very low reimbursement from the state program,” said Kathleen Traut, executive director of A Fluoride Connection. “We won’t turn any child away if they are uninsured or otherwise aren’t on the program, we simply get paid less. Funding from America’s Toothfairy has eased our financial worries in providing vital services for the little ones who wont otherwise have any dental experiences at all. It is gratifying to share such a passion for children’s oral health with America’s Toothfairy!”

NCOHF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the No. 1 chronic childhood illness: pediatric dental disease, facilitating delivery of comprehensive pediatric oral health services, and eliminating this preventable disease from future generations. NCOHF draws on vast national resources to secure and distribute product and financial donations along with innovative preventive programs to a growing network of not-for-profit university and community based dental clinics, health centers, and mobile programs throughout America.

(Source: NCOHF)

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