Posts Tagged ‘mobile dental units’
Lake County children benefit from dental van
More than 200 Lake County children have once again benefitted from the annual visit of the Access Dental Van. The van, which is run by the Lake County Office of Education’s ‘Healthy Start’ programme, visits schools in the area once a year to provide children with basic dental treatments, free of charge. The van visits […]
Mackay children get the all-clear following dental blunder
Four schoolchildren from Mackay have been given the all-clear after having blood tests following a sterilisation incident last week. The children, who were in year 4 and year 7, received treatment from a mobile dental unit at the Fitzgerald State Primary School last week. It was discovered shortly after that instruments that had not been fully sterilised […]
Families First clinic receives $20,000 grant
Tom’s of Maine, a dental health provider, recently launched a competition to allow dental clinics and practices to apply for a grant of $20,000. Competitors were required to upload a video onto the company website and local people were then invited to vote for which organisations they wanted to support. The competition closed on March […]
Waikato schools to miss out on new clinics
Four schools in the Waikato area will miss out on valuable funding programmes, it has been announced. The schools, including Bankwood, Melville, Te Awamutu and Silverdale Normal schools, will now miss out on the funding they were promised by the Waikato District Health Board last year. The money was going to be used to establish […]
