Toothbrush kits donated by the Delta Dental of Kansas Foundation are being distributed to seven elementary schools as part of the Fort Hays State University Pre-Dental Club\u2019s preventative oral health education program.<\/p>\n
1,400 kits containing\u00a0a toothbrush, toothpaste, and floss have been going out to Ellis County\u00a0elementary schools since Oct. 1 as part of the oral health education program.<\/p>\n
Washington Elementary in Ellis, Victoria Grade School in Victoria; and Lincoln, O\u2019Loughlin, Roosevelt, Wilson and Washington elementary schools in Hays are the schools the FHSU Pre-Dental Club will visit as a part of this program.<\/p>\n
\u201cWestern Kansas has a shortage of dental providers, and it is important that young children be taught lifelong habits for good oral health,\u201d said Leigh Reynolds in a press release by FHSU University Relations. Reynolds is the President of the FHSU Pre-Dental Club.<\/p>\n
The program features four activity stations that last 15 minutes each. Station 1 is devoted to nutrition.<\/p>\n
Station 2 will teach basic brushing habits using the book \u201cDr. Rabbit Wants to Say,\u201d by Colgate. The Second Station will also feature the video, \u201cBrushing Magic with Dudley the Dinosaur.\u201d<\/p>\n
Station 3 will show good brushing and flossing techniques through the use of \u201cbrushing puppets\u201d.<\/p>\n
The final station will have the students dress up in full dental gear including, scrubs, masks, safety goggles, and gloves.<\/p>\n
The program will continue until Nov. 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Toothbrush kits donated by the Delta Dental of Kansas Foundation are being distributed to seven elementary schools as part of the Fort Hays State University… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398],"tags":[3640,1759,3639,3641,3642],"class_list":["post-15183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-delta-dental-of-kansas-foundation","tag-ellis-county","tag-fhsu-pre-dental-club","tag-leigh-reynolds","tag-oral-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15185,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions\/15185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}