Dental Hygienists Visit Small Wonders Day Care School

The preschool and pre-kindergarten students from Small Wonders/Back Mountain Day Care School had a visit from dental hygienists from a local dentist office. Hygienists Mary Majewski and Jennifer Clarke from Dr. William Watkins and Dr. Lawrence Meduras office, instructed the children on dental hygiene and proper tooth-brushing techniques. Members of the preschool class are: Sydney Brady, Grace O'Donnell, Will Langdon, Logan Dalsanto, Zoe Pickett, Karly Milazzo, Kayla Kiwak, Nathaniel May, Erin White, Elizabeth Sheider, and Meagan Manzella.


Pennsylvania Dental Association Announces Winners of Annual Statewide Third-grade Student Poster Contest


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HARRISBURG, Pa., April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Makenzie Kistler, an eight-year-old student in Mr. Dan Fox's third-grade class at Lehigh Elementary School in Northampton County, will receive a $1,000 educational bond for winning first place in the Pennsylvania Dental Association's (PDA) 2007 National Children's Dental Health Month (NCDHM) statewide poster contest.

Makenzie's poster will be reproduced as bookmarks, which will be distributed to all of Pennsylvania's public libraries. A PDA member dentist will present Makenzie with her framed winning poster and bookmarks at an upcoming Recognition Assembly in June.

In addition to Makenzie's prizes, Lehigh Elementary School and the
district's dental hygienist, Beth Arcury, RDH, MDH, will each receive a $250 prize for participating in PDA's contest. Ms. Arcury has been involved in NCDHM for 13 years, teaching an oral health lesson to students during the month of February. She also coordinates the poster contest for seven schools in the Northampton Area School District.

In her poster titled "Brush Hour," Makenzie depicted toothbrush cars,
equipped with toothpaste and wheels, as they drove down the highway passing a dentist office, Floss Factory, Incisor Towers, the Tooth Fairy Inn and an arcade. Her poster was selected from 77 well-designed and creative regional finalist posters submitted to the PDA Central Office for final judging.

Second place was awarded to Jeffrey Yosco, 9, from J.M. Hill Elementary in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County. Jeffrey will receive a $500 educational savings bond for his poster titled "Join the Team for Good Dental Hygiene," that depicted a dental superhero team consisting of Captain Molar, Flosso, T. Paste and Brushia.

Nine-year-old Cole Ferguson of Mars Elementary in Butler County took third place with his "A Cavity is a Pothole on the Road to Good Dental Health" poster that depicted a cavity as a pothole on the tooth's road being surrounded by road signs that read "Bright Smiles Ahead," "Brush Twice a Day" and "Stop that Cavity," while confined by parking cones. Cole will receive a $250 educational savings bond.

It is estimated that 20,000 third-grade students across Pennsylvania
participated in this year's poster contest.

Visit the PDA website at http://www.padental.org/ to learn more about NCDHM and other dental health topics.

Source: Pennsylvania Dental Association