Submitted by the KinderSmile Foundation The year 2020 has proven to be a difficult year, but for KinderSmile Foundation, it was defined by silver linings. Thanks to a technology capital improvement grant from Partners for Health Foundation, which was received immediately prior to the Dental Home closures necessitated by COVID-19, we were able to continue …Read More…
More than 250 underserved adults and children in the Partners for Health Foundation service area received affordable, high quality dental care on the Zufall Delta Dental Mobile Van in its first year of service. At the ribbon cutting ceremony to launch the dental van in August 2016, Eva Turbina, Zufall’s president and chief executive officer …Read More…
Ribbons were cut and doors opened on October 25th at KinderSmile Community Oral Health Center (KSCOHC), 10 Broad Street, Bloomfield. Suburban Essex Chamber of Commerce members, business leaders, dental and health care professionals as well as KinderSmile Foundation trustees, friends, and staff joyously celebrated the realization of a longtime goal–a Dental Home for underserved …Read More…
On Wednesday, November 2nd, 2 p.m. NJ Spotlight hosted a webinar on Oral Health in New Jersey: How to Build Stronger Teeth, Healthier Lives. A growing body of research illustrates that dental care is critical not just to preserve a pretty smile; oral health is essential to good nutrition. Deteriorating teeth and gums can contribute …Read More…
Caucus Educational Corporation produces important educational programming that tackles a range of issues of concern to New Jerseyans. In this segment of Caucus: New Jersey, Steve Adubato is joined by a panel of experts to discuss access to oral health, how poor dental hygiene can negatively affect the overall health of adults and children, and …read more…