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August 2014 
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.

SCDA District Meetings

Although summer is here, it is not too early to make plans to attend your SCDA District Meeting this fall. The following is a list of Districts and their meeting dates:

Coastal: September 5, 2014
Pee Dee: September 12, 2014
Central: September 12, 2014
Piedmont: September 26, 2014

As more information is received, the SCDA will keep you updated.  

Donated Dental Services Program

The Donated Dental Services Program (DDS) continues to grow 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.

 

Participation could not be easier.  Dentists and labs take care of the patients, DDS does everything else; no headaches, no red tape.  A DDS Coordinator is the liaison between the patient, the labs and the dentists, answering any and all questions, assisting the patient, the lab and the dentist with anything and everything.  The goal of DDS is to return patients to good oral health, enabling them to reach an affordable maintenance level.

 

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 the SCDA today for information on how to get involved.

 

Sincerely,
 
 

Phil Latham
Executive Director, SCDA