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May 2014 
Dental Access Days (DAD)- Rock Hill- August 7-9, 2014

The SCDA has planned its sixth DAD Project. The project will be held in Rock Hill this August. Click here to register!

Special Health Care Needs Education Course

Dr. Carlos Salinas has planned the XVI "Dental Program for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Special Health Care Needs" for Friday, September 26, 2014. The seminar will be held at the North Charleston Convention Center beginning at 7:30 a.m. Some of the featured speakers at this year's event include: Derrick MacFabe MD, University of Western Ontario, Canada and Steve Beetstra DDS, MHSA, Arkansas Children's Hospital. Click here for more information.

Donated Dental Services Program

The Donated Dental Services Program (DDS) continues to grow here in South Carolina as several dentists have recently joined to help provide care.  However, we still have pockets in the State where additional volunteers are needed.

 

The DDS program is a collaborative, direct way that the dental profession reaches out to individuals with special needs. These individuals are our most vulnerable residents: disabled, elderly and medically compromised people who can neither afford treatment nor obtain public aid.

 

The DDS program is designed by dentists and for dentists.  The program is operated efficiently by the National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped (NFDH) through DDS coordinators right here in our state.  More than 14,100 dentists and 2,800 labs volunteer for DDS nationwide.  For a quick introduction to DDS, watch this short video by Dr. Gordon Christensen, NFDH Board Member, at www.nfdh.org.

 

If you have not signed up to participate in this program, please do so today.  You can do through the national website mentioned earlier or call Dawn Peltier at 803-726-4522.
Sincerely,
 
 

Phil Latham
Executive Director, SCDA