![]() ![]() “Like how to breathe in the Nitrous and make it fun and distracting. They teach kids not only how to brush and floss, but what a normal visit to the dentist looks like. If kids are in pain we’ll do extractions,” said 4th year OU dentistry student Kate Littlefield. “We do cleanings, exams… but we’ll even do pulps and crowns. Students are getting real experience with kids, before ever graduating. Last fall, OU students got involved allowing the care to move from just four times a year to now once a week. “Little Smiles” isn’t a new program, last year they covered about $45,000 worth of dental costs. of the Delta Dental Oklahoma Foundation Terrisa Singleton. “A lot of times parents can’t take off work or when they do it costs them pay, so a lot of times a preventive visit is a thing that goes astray,” said Dir. School leaders say a lot of those dental needs, stem from a lack of access to a dentist. ![]() “There’s about 10 percent of the students that have never been to the dentist, so through a screening, we identify those students and know which ones have severe dental needs,” added Norman Regional Health Foundation Executive Director Erin Barnhart. The district surveys the kids every year.īeth Roberson, the health services coordinator for the district, says they have about 800 students in need of dental care but only those 200 are urgent. It allows 200 Norman Public Schools students of all ages to get free dental work. Students, teachers, kids all piling in for the “Little Smiles” program. ![]() Tuesday mornings during the spring semester, the MNTC dentist lab fills up. “We get to teach them, you know, we’re preventing a bad thing,” said Moore Norman Technology Student Tobi Powell. (KFOR) – It’s called the “Little Smiles” program, and that’s exactly what it’s creating. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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