COHI In the News

One BABY, One BRUSH, One DENTIST to Protect Us©
A Proposed Maryland Medicaid Health Care Campaign
By: Dr. Winifred J. Booker
Special Article | October 2023

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Back-to-School and Back-to-Daycare with Healthy Smiles for All
July 13, 2022

Contributors: Amr M. Moursi, DDS, PhD | Bianca Dearing, DDS, MPhil, PhD | Winifred J. Booker, DDS, FAAPD

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Visit the American Dental Education Association® (ADEA) web site for information about their Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) program.

The Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) is a free, six-week summer academic enrichment program for rising sophomore and junior students in college whom are interested in health professions careers. »

Oral health professionals can now earn continuing education credit for taking the online course entitled, Improving Oral Health Literacy: Teaching Primary School Students through the Lessons in a Lunch Box Program. Visit dentalcare.com and type in CE 456.

The Academy of General Dentistry Foundation (AGDF) and The Children’s Oral Health Institute (COHI) have solidified plans to work together to expand the Lessons In A Lunch Box: Healthy Teeth Essentials & Facts About Snacks program throughout the United States. Read More »

• The Children's Oral Health Institute leads initiative to document legislative chronology in Maryland’s Pathway to Help Get Oral Health Education Legislation Passed in Your State© and in the National Governor Association's case study, Maryland Passes Oral Health Education Legislation Through Collaborative Approach. The study can be downloaded from the National Governors Association website under State Health Policy Options by clicking HERE.

• A Clean Toothbrush May Help Protect You From The Flu©
• School lunches: Making an everyday icon an oral health learning opportunity (ADA) »
• Curriculum Update: Students Sink Teeth into a Different Kind of Lunch Box »
• NDA News Release on Dental Tragedies »
• UMB Dental School Newsletter, March 1, 2008 »
• ASDA News, May 2008 »

3rd students from Meharry Medical College, School of Dentistry
prepare to give out lunch boxes at Inglewood Elementary School in
Nashville on October 31, 2008.