The DentaQuest Foundation has renewed its funding for the final phase of development and launch of OHA’s Wisdom Tooth Project® website. The funding will enable OHA to reach older adults and their caregivers on a national and state basis, with assistance from award-winning public relations agency Edelman. The website features articles by experts in the dental field about important oral health topics facing older adults and ways to connect with local resources. ToothWisdom.org is undergoing live testing and will be introduced at an industry event at OHA’s corporate headquarters in Chicago on May 15, 2013. The new Wisdom Tooth Project website is one of five strategies OHA is implementing to provide older adults and their caregivers information and resources about oral care and to raise public awareness about the need to take action. The goal of the website is to promote the importance of prevention at every age; connect older adults to resources needed to access care; create a singular place where dental, medical, and allied health professionals as well as older adult advocates can find resources, and to connect and build communities on a national and state level needed to excite systemic change. OHA will also launch a 10 year anniversary addition of State of Decay, a report that examines the oral health of older adults on a state-by-state basis. INTERESTED IN BECOMING A CONTENT EXPERT FOR TOOTHWISDOM.ORG? CONTACT: ALLYSON.SUPOWITZ ORALHEALTHAMERICA.ORG. Get Online with the Wisdom Tooth Project ORAL HEALTH AMERICA BRINGING HEALTHY MOUTHS TO LIFE SPRING 2013 ORALHEALTHAMERICA.ORG President and CEO DEAR FRIENDS OF OHA, Did you know that 10,000 Americans reach retirement age every day and that only 2% have dental insurance? This is one of many alarming statistics about the oral health of older adults that is moving OHA to act now. OHA’s Wisdom Tooth Project® (WTP) is dedicated to helping our nation’s most vulnerable population, older adults, gain access to oral health resources. Henry Schein and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation is helping OHA to stem this crisis by matching gifts dollar-for-dollar up to $20,000 through May 31. Give now, and double your impact. We appreciate your support in helping OHA bring healthy mouths to life,
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The DentaQuest Foundation has renewed its
funding for the final phase of development
and launch of OHA’s Wisdom Tooth Project®
website. The funding will enable OHA to
reach older adults and their caregivers on
a national and state basis, with assistance
from award-winning public relations agency
Edelman. The website features articles by
experts in the dental field about important
oral health topics facing older adults and
ways to connect with local resources.
ToothWisdom.org is undergoing live testing
and will be introduced at an industry event at
OHA’s corporate headquarters in Chicago on
May 15, 2013.
The new Wisdom Tooth Project website is
one of five strategies OHA is implementing
to provide older adults and their caregivers
information and resources about oral care
and to raise public awareness about the
need to take action. The goal of the website
is to promote the importance of prevention
at every age; connect older adults to
resources needed to access care; create a
singular place where dental, medical, and
allied health professionals as well as older
adult advocates can find resources, and to
connect and build communities on a national
and state level needed to excite systemic
change. OHA will also launch a 10 year
anniversary addition of State of Decay, a
report that examines the oral health of older
adults on a state-by-state basis.
INTERESTED IN BECOMING A CONTENT EXPERT FOR TOOTHWISDOM.ORG?
CONTACT: ALLYSON.SUPOWITZ ORALHEALTHAMERICA.ORG.
Get Online with the Wisdom Tooth Project
ORAL HEALTH AMERICABRINGING HEALTHY MOUTHS TO LIFE SPRING 2013
ORALHEALTHAMERICA.ORG
President and CEO
DEAR FRIENDS OF OHA,Did you know that 10,000 Americans
reach retirement age every day and that
only 2% have dental insurance? This is
one of many alarming statistics about
the oral health of older adults that is
moving OHA to act now. OHA’s Wisdom
Tooth Project® (WTP) is dedicated to
helping our nation’s most vulnerable
population, older adults, gain access
to oral health resources. Henry Schein
and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation
is helping OHA to stem this crisis by
matching gifts dollar-for-dollar up to
$20,000 through May 31. Give now, and
double your impact.
We appreciate your support in helping OHA
bring healthy mouths to life,
REVVING UP EXCITEMENT OVER HEALTHY MOUTHS
OHA teamed up with Give Kids a Smile (GKAS)
with participation in two NASCAR events this
spring. The events took place in California and Missouri,
where OHA coordinated a dental education event at
Troth Elementary School in Jurupa Valley and J.A. Rogers
Elementary in Kansas City, featuring the members of the
No. 16 3M Ford Fusion race team and the No. 16 3M race
car. More than 1,800 students learned about the importance