November 26, 2008

Make your professional publication interactive
Have an interesting hobby? Volunteer with a great organization? Access wants to know what dental hygienists are doing out of the office to balance their lives, keep themselves healthy, stay financially secure, and enhance their lifestyles. Please email your insights and contact information to JeanM@adha.net and title the email Accessing Life. If we decide to use your idea in an article, someone from the Access team will get in touch with you. We look forward to your contributions! Please note: if you are featured in “Accessing Life,” we will need a print-quality photo that shows you participating in your featured activity.

Does your office practice holistic dentistry? If so, Access wants to talk to you! Email JeanM@adha.net and put Holistic Dentistry in the subject line.

Access magazine’s “Strive: the Student View” is seeking student-authored papers mentored by faculty advisors. Please suggest topics to JeanM@adha.net and cc your faculty mentor.

Your Students Can Help Give Every Child a Healthy Smile!
In July 2008, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) and the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation (NCOHF) embarked on a partnership that formed the ADHA Toothfairy Campaign. Through this partnership, the ADHA Institute for Oral Health is providing a unique opportunity for accredited dental hygiene programs to become members of NCOHF’s Affiliate Network, a growing network of not-for-profit oral healthcare facilities dedicated to serving the country’s economically disadvantaged children. To date, the NCOHF Affiliate Network includes university dental schools, comprehensive health centers, stand-alone dental clinics, mobile/portable programs, hospital dental clinics, school-based programs, and programs that provide education, preventative and referral resources to a dental home.

Through the ADHA Institute for Oral Health, five dental hygiene programs will be provided the opportunity to actively participate in addressing pediatric dental disease through the solutions of preventive therapy and an educational approach. As members of the network, these dental hygiene programs will receive: 

• Toothfairy Island® - turn-key preventive oral health educational curriculum (please visit www.toothfairyisland.com)
• Donated dental equipment and supplies
• Financial grants
• The Guide, a policies and procedures manual of best practices to share with your preceptor sites
• Fundraising templates and initiatives - Funds raised in a specific community will go directly to an NCOHF Affiliate in that community for direct services to children.  NCOHF will be helping Affiliates launch Toothfairy Campaigns in their respective areas   
• And many others…  

All applications should be received or postmarked no later than December 31, 2008 in order to be considered.  For additional questions or concerns regarding the application process, please contact Star Abernathy, Administrator, by phone or email at 312/440-8944 or stara@adha.net.  For questions directly related to the NCOHF or the Affiliate Network, please contact Sandra Boucher-Bessent at 704/350-1600 or sboucher@ncohf.org.

Earn Your Wings
On November 14th, a president-elect or leader from nearly every state attending the American Dental Hygienists’ Association’s (ADHA) Unleashing Your Potential leadership training helped to build the ADHA Toothfairy Campaign! In a matter of minutes, over $1,500 was raised! ADHA, the Class of 2009 President-Elects and the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation (NCOHF) invite all dental hygienists to “earn your wings” by donating to this collaborative effort to raise awareness and funds to support direct delivery of education, preventive treatment and comprehensive oral health services to our nation’s most at-risk children. We can all be proud of our dental hygiene community, which continues to be a leader in the effort to develop solutions to this national health crisis. Already, dental hygienists’ strong show of support to the Toothfairy Campaign is helping thousands of children.

For every $25 you donate to the Toothfairy Campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a pair of Orascoptic loupes (valued at $1,425 each). Chances of winning are multiplied because drawings will be held in each ADHA District that reaches a minimum of $2,000 in contributions before the end of 2008. One hundred percent of your desperately needed contribution will be used to support pediatric oral health. With $50 or more, you will receive your wings: a Toothfairy pin.

To make a donation, visit: http://www.ncohf.org/RDHToothfairy.php   
or call 1-800-559-9838 (8:30-5:30 Monday-Friday Eastern Time).

Join your colleagues as we build the Dental Hygienist fund of the Toothfairy Campaign! And thank you for helping children eat, sleep, learn, thrive and have something to smile about this Thanksgiving!

Who is a HYGIENIST HERO™?
YOU are. Dental hygienists are an integral part of the dental team, and go above and beyond daily clinical practice. You are a dental hygienist who donates time to charities to enhance oral health care in your community. You are an inspiration to all.

In appreciation of your extraordinary efforts, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association has created a recognition program to honor your efforts. This program is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., maker of LISTERINE® Antiseptic and REACH® Brands. We want to recognize YOU, registered dental hygienist, for the efforts you have championed to raise awareness for oral health care.

Find out how you can be the next HYGIENIST HERO™!

Be part of the HYGIENIST HERO Recognition Program from the American Dental Hygienists’ Association and Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products. The next round of honorees for the HYGIENIST HERO™ program will be recognized at the 2009 ADHA Annual Session, Washington, DC, June 16-24, 2009.

E-NEWSLETTER DISCLAIMER
To ensure you continue to receive our newsletter, please add broadcast@adha.net to your recipients list (not bulk or junk folders), and log in to your membership record at www.adha.org to update your contact information. The newsletter is sent to the email address on file. Do not reply to this email to update your email address.