A Juniors one of our requirements is to do outreach. The school has plenty of outreach days available and they include anything from helping with the Special Olympics to doing screenings on children at various clinics in the greater Philadelphia area. Two outreach credits are needed and the outreach is done in any two days during the year. The first outreach I did was a table clinic at some Junior College where we talked to students at a graduate job fair and gave them information about dental school and the scholarships available to them if they graduated from said college. No one wanted to go to dental school which I thought was insane since the scholarship was for a FULL RIDE. Anyway…
For my second day of outreach I visited my son’s elementary school and talked to a his class about brushing their teeth and how fun visiting the dentist can be. I had one of my friends help me out. Here is his picture:
I spoke to the kids about the typical things. The average visit at the dental office, Mr. Tickle (low speed with prophy cup), sleepy juice, how to brush, and my donkey friend helped me the whole time. I used my son to help all the kids count all the teeth found in a 5 year old. Here are some pictures, enjoy!
