DENTAL TRADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
2013 Annual Report Broadening oral health care awareness and access for those in need
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Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher’s report identified profound disparities in access to oral health care. The Surgeon General effectively issued a challenge to the dental community, and our community responded. As a direct result of this report, the Dental Trade Alliance convened a membership roundtable to focus on key issues related to the disparity in oral care. It also created the Oral Care Access Committee to pursue research and other initiatives designed to remove obstacles to oral care access.
2001
DTA Foundation was created to improve access to, and productivity of, the oral health care system by identifying, nurturing, and leveraging promising projects.
2002
The DTA Oral Care Access Committee teamed with the Santa Fe Group, a nonprofit public health advocacy organization, by providing strategic direction and seed money to start the Oral Care Access Scholars Program. This program supported ten research and service-oriented projects, dealing with such issues as dental office productivity, acceptance of new technologies, and culturally sensitive public education regarding oral care. The 2002 Oral Care Access Scholars Program was the start of the DTA Foundation Grant Program.
2006
The DTA Foundation initiated a strategy to collaborate with key industry organizations. The DTA Foundation provided $100,000 in support to the ADA Give Kids a Smile program between 2006 and 2009.
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The DTA Foundation has collaborated with and funded projects initiated by:
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American Association of Public Health Dentistry
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American Academy of Pediatrics
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American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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American Dental Association
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American Dental Hygienists’ Association
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American Medical Directors Association
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California Dental Association Foundation
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Children’s Dental Health Project
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Dental Lifeline Network
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Kids Smiles, Inc.
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Maryland Children’s Oral Health Institute
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Oral Health America
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Smiles For Success
The DTA Foundation launched the Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives which developed the 2min2x.org campaign. This has been an extremely successful campaign designed to educate children and their caregivers on the importance of brushing two minutes two times a day.
2012
The DTA Foundation Dental Student Scholarship program launched with funding from the Robert J. Sullivan Family Foundation.
2013
The DTA Foundation funded in excess of $1,100,000 to over 50 different innovative, sustainable projects since the inception of the grants program in 2002.
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OHWWHU IURP WKH FKDLUPDQ Dear DTA Foundation Friends and Supporters: 2013 was a landmark year for the DTA Foundation! Since 2002, we have granted in excess of $1,100,000 to over 50 different innovative, sustainable projects designed to increase access to oral health care. During our 2013 annual conference in Arlington, VA, 14 past Foundation grant recipients gave presentations about their projects relating to oral health care, updating the DTA leadership on the status. They provided insight on how they are making use of the Foundation grant money and gave us a perspective on the future of their projects. This exchange of information created a great synergy among the various project leaders and initiated conversation with other potential funders who attended. Videos were created to share the stories of the impact on the lives of children, the elderly, teen mothers and their infants, as well as inter-professional projects designed to increase the number of oral health care providers. The four videos, which can be viewed on the www.dtafoundation.org homepage, illustrate how your donations have made a difference. While you are on our website, you will be able to discover additional valuable information, including lists of our partners, donors, and scholarship and grant recipients.
Highlights of other DTA Foundation 2013 accomplishments include: • • •
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Sponsorship of the Children’s Oral Health campaign developed by The Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives (PHMHL) and the Ad Council – 2min2x.org. (See page 5 for more information.) Grant funding in the amount of $25,000 for 8 new innovative projects. (See page 8 for more information.) Award scholarships to 4 outstanding young dental students in the amount of $5,000 each, thanks to the DTAF/ Robert J. Sullivan Family Foundation dental student scholarship program and the DTAF/Dr. Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund. (See page 7 for more information.) Continuing role in sustaining the Dental Lifeline Network through its DentaCheques program. Record year of incoming pledges and donations.
The DTA Foundation remains committed to responsible stewardship of DTA members’ donations. It is important to us that we leverage and expand resources to promote real change. Thanks to DTA members and industry partners, the Foundation continues to promote charitable projects focused on Creating Access to Oral Health Care. I’m proud of the organization’s accomplishments in 2013 and appreciate your continued support as we work to have an even greater impact on access to oral health care across America. Respectfully yours,
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and continue to make a difference. Since the inception of the Grant Program in 2002, the DTA Foundation has provided more than $1,100,000 in funding to over 50 different charitable projects designed to create innovative, scalable, sustainable oral health care programs for Americans in need.
Children’s Dental Health Project Funded in 2009 and 2011
CREATING ACCESS TO ORAL HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA It is through your generous donations that the DTA Foundation is able to continue funding new, innovative, scalable, sustainable oral health care programs with the purpose of broadening oral health awareness and access for those in need.
As a recipient of DTA Foundation funds in 2009 and 2011, the Children’s Dental Health Project (CDHP) has provided technical policy assistance to federal and state governments as well as child advocates as they worked to implement dental provisions incorporated in the federal Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). “DTA Foundation funding helped CDHP champion oral health during key debates on Capitol Hill. Now millions of children and teens can access dental benefits through the Children’s Health Insurance Program and health reform. 2009 was critical for getting a mandated dental benefit in CHIP (up for reform in 2015). 2011 was spent working to protect dental in health reform (the focus in 2010 was to get dental health named as ‘essential’).” Patrice Pascual, Executive Director, Children’s Dental Health Project
Charitable projects throughout the United States utilize DTA Foundation grant funding as seed money to implement innovative programs and garner additional funding from other sources enabling them to grow their projects from the local and regional level to the national level. Since the 2008 launch of the Lessons in a Lunch Box program, utilizing DTA Foundation seed money and with the support of dental students, corporate and organized dentistry and volunteers from around the country, The Children’s Oral Health Institute has presented the program in 33 states to 20,000 continued on page 4 > @
Dr. Rick Niederman Forsyth Schools Funded in 2002 2002 DTA Foundation grant seed funding enabled Dr. Rick Niederman’s project at the Forsyth School in Massachusetts (“Implement a primary prevention elementary school program – Planning Grant”) to grow the program from 4 to 53 schools. The program has continued to grow, providing access to oral health care to children in Maine, New Hampshire, Kansas, Colorado and Hawaii.
Oral Health America Wisdom Tooth Project Funded in 2011 As a 2011 grant recipient, Oral Health America (OHA) utilized DTA Foundation seed funds to launch the Connecticut Wisdom Tooth Project online pilot project. The state of Connecticut served as an initial demonstration site for the OHA online space to connect, educate, and advocate for oral health of older adults
by providing resources and linkages at both national and local levels. This project served to create a template for a local community page to ultimately be replicated by other states and regions. “Since Oral Health America developed the first state page for Connecticut with funding from the DTA Foundation, 18 additional state pages have been completed. When OHA’s www.toothwisdom.org launched on October 8, 2013, all states were either completed or under development. The grant from the DTA Foundation and partnerships with the American Dental Hygienists’ Association and the Special Care Dentistry Foundation helped Oral Health America create this first-of-its-kind online tool that connects older adults to dental care and educates them and their care advisors, using plain language, about many topics necessary to maintain oral health with age.” Beth Truett, President & CEO, Oral Health America
University of Kentucky, College of Dentistry Funded in 2010 As a direct result of Dr. Pamela Stein’s DTA Foundation funded project to create a program to provide daily oral hygiene for nursing home residents, the Kentucky House Bill 510 was signed into law on April 12, 2012 mandating $150,000 to be used to train nursing assistants to become “oral health specialists” in several long term care facilities in Kentucky. (Unfortunately, as is often the case, the state has not funded the bill.) More importantly, numerous private practice dental providers, five states, four major national health care organizations and an organization in Australia have utilized the free curriculum and training resources created through DTA Foundation funding to improve oral care in nursing homes for vulnerable elders in their area.
University of Maryland, School of Public Health Funded in 2011 This pre-pilot project focused on caries prevention for teen mothers and for their infants was partially funded by the DTA Foundation. It was very successful and set the stage to continue and expand this service project. A great deal was learned from the young moms during the efforts to educate them about the importance of oral health and general health, especially during pregnancy. Working with the teen moms, different approaches and educational materials were developed to use with other similar groups of women throughout the state of Maryland. This program continues as a community service project and expanded to another high school during the 2013-2014 academic year.
Amos Deinard, M.D., MPH - Pediatrician Funded in 2002 and 2005 The DTA Foundation provided Dr. Deinard $8,000 in initial funding with an additional $5,000 contribution later on, to begin the work of training physicians in caries prevention. The DTA Foundation funding allowed Dr. Deinard to launch his project and attract additional funders to his programs. Dr. Deinard utilized DTA Foundation funds to not only launch various projects across the state of Minnesota but to attract a little over $480,000 in additional grant support from other funders to expand his projects designed to train the physicians in Minnesota to do caries prevention.
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elementary school children. Each child has received a specialized educational oral health care lunch box with a dental carrot case (toothbrush, toothpaste and dental floss). The Children’s Oral Health Institute expects to expand the outreach of the Lessons in a Lunch Box program to a minimum of 10,000 children in 2014 impacting not just these elementary school children but their entire academic and family communities, including administrators, teachers, staff, siblings, parents and others extended community and family members. The DTA Foundation recommitted to this project in 2013 with an additional $25,000 in funding that will allow the Lessons in a Lunch Box program to have been sustained for 5 years. At the conclusion of this 5th cycle, The Children’s Oral Health Institute will use the 2013-14 DTA Foundation funding leverage to provide a “Lessons in a Lunch Box Road Map: Guidelines to Introduce the Program in Public Schools.” The road map is being developed to help interested dental schools/ dental students (ASDA, SNDA), FQHC and other organizations to independently offer the program and move toward helping to incorporate oral health education in public schools. We look forward to your continued support as we move forward with more grant funding, dental scholarships and the oral health literacy Ad Council’s ‘2 minutes 2 times a day’ Campaign. Thank you for supporting these critical projects with your donations! Sincerely,
Laura Fleming Doyle, CAE Executive Director
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DG FRXQFLO FDPSDLJQ UHVXOWV 2 Minutes, Twice a Day: Ad Council Campaign to Improve Children’s Oral Health.
Background:
The Kids’ Healthy Mouths Ad Council public service campaign
launched on August 14, 2012 with the distribution of public service advertising (PSAs), public relations outreach, social media engagement, 2 minute videos and a website, 2min2x.org. Based on extensive target research, a campaign theme was developed: Kids will spend a lot of time doing all sorts of things. Let’s get them to spend two minutes twice a day brushing their teeth. Known as the Children’s Oral Health campaign, this effort directly communicates the importance of regular brushing behaviors and is targeted both to English and Spanish speaking parents and caregivers of children aged 0-12 with an emphasis on lower income and minority populations. The DTA has played a lead role in the conception, development and management of the program with the Ad Council as part of the Executive Committee of the
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has attracted 1.6 million visitors and more than 133,000 views of the two-minute videos. A celebrity spokesperson partnership with Laila Ali around the campaign launch also
generated an additional 89.1 million impressions. Her status, along with her busy mom on-the-go lifestyle strongly resonated with media and our target audiences.
Scholastic:
In October 2013, a Scholastic in-school program was actively promoted
through their network of participating Title 1 schools for Pre-Kindergarten thru 1st grade in 60,000 classrooms. Each packet included posters, teacher, child and parents materials (English and Spanish), lesson plans and instructions.
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National Brush Day 2013:
National
Brush Day is an extension of the Kids’ Healthy Mouths campaign and was observed on November 1, the day after Halloween, to reinforce the importance of children’s oral health and promote good tooth brushing habits. National Brush Day outreach yielded an estimated potential reach from press coverage and social media is 53.1 million impressions.
Current Initiatives:
Most recently, the Kids’ Healthy Mouths campaign
launched a new mobile game called, “Toothsavers,” as another way to make the two-minute brushing time fun and interactive. In the game, kids will be able to rescue classic fairy tale characters from a tooth-rotting curse and become heroes with the help of their toothbrushes. The game is available for Android and iPhone.
Impact:
A Post Wave Tracking Study results
demonstrate that the campaign has exceeded its measurement goals and is making progress in driving awareness and behavior change. General awareness of messages about making sure children brush two times a day for two minutes has significantly increased since the launch. More than 50 percent of parents surveyed have seen or heard the new Kids’ Healthy Mouths PSAs. The Ad Council has noted that the English and Spanish local broadcast TV levels out-performed their historical averages for a campaign of this duration. The campaign has run nationally and has received exposure in all of the major markets, and the Ad Council said it was one of the “top performing campaigns for 2013.”
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VFKRODUVKLS UHFLSLHQWV DTA Foundation Dental Student Scholarship Recognizes a Commitment to Community Service The Dental Trade Alliance Foundation awarded four $5,000 dental student scholarships in 2013. These scholarships are meant to recognize and provide financial support to third or fourth year dental students who have demonstrated academic excellence in dentistry, financial need and a commitment to community service. This program is supported in part by The Robert J. Sullivan Family Foundation, the Dr. Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund and Crown Seating.
DTAF / Robert J. Sullivan Family Foundation Dental Student Scholarships
DTAF / Dr. Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund Dental Student Scholarships
Ms. Sarah Usher A.T. Still University, Arizona School of
Mr. Eric Chen
Dentistry and Oral Health
Loma Linda University
“Community service is one main force
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in my life that keeps me motivated,”
truly wonderful people that are equally
said Ms. Usher. “The people who I
committed to community service as I
meet and the lives that I touch, the
am,” said Mr. Chen. “Amazing mentors
lessons that I learn, and the challenges
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that are presented to me are all pieces
excellent work both in private practice
of motivation that make me continue
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to strive to be the dentist that the
community service. Inspiration comes
community asks me to be.”
naturally with the team of volunteers that I work with and I am humbled by
Ms. Chelsea Wong University of California, San Francisco
their acts of kindness and dedication to the various projects I am also part of. They continue to be a great source of motivation to keep moving forward.”
“I would like to incorporate community service into my full time dental career by
Ms. Rachel D’Souza
volunteering at outreach events on the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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dental faculty are doing right now at
just pursuing big gestures, but also by
the outreach events that I organize,”
focusing on education and appropriate
said Ms. Wong. “I would also like to
care for patients who need them the
take a couple days during each week
most,” Ms. D’Souza said. “I plan to
to teach at UCSF and continue to
continue to volunteer, both for dental
give back to others in my community.
projects and community projects, in
With a background as a TA, I love explaining concepts to
the course of my lifetime because I am
others, and in my full time dental career, I plan on coming
determined to pay back the support
back to UCSF one day and giving back to others through
and inspiration that others in my
education.”
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JUDQW UHFLSLHQWV Making a Difference through DTA Foundation Seed Funding by Broadening Oral Health Care Awareness and Access for those in Need University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine Improved Access to Oral Care through Increased Oral Health Literacy This project will adapt a validated oral health literacy self-assessment to tablet format; it will develop an immediate real-time educational program feedback component to the selfassessment; and administer the survey and feedback to 500 UNLV patients. The project is designed to compare the patient return rate for appointments for the past 2 years with patients completing the tablet-based program. HYPOTHESIS: Patients who have completed the literacy program will have a higher return rate to the dental clinic for preventive and continuing care than those who have not.
Pennsylvania Head Start Association The Pennsylvania Age One “Connect the Dotsâ€? Pilot Project The Pennsylvania Age One “Connect the Dotsâ€? Pilot Project will provide professional continuing education for dentists and dental hygienists through training and support for implementation to meet national practice standards. The Phase 1 “Train-the-Trainerâ€? component provides training and continuing education credits for at least ďŹ ve “Dentist Peer Presentersâ€? to present the Age One “Connect the Dotsâ€? content to their peers. In Phase 2, a maximum of 15 two-hour trainings will be delivered by the “Dentist Peer Presentersâ€? to a total of 150 dental providers, granting continuing education credits. After the training, follow-up support for implementation will be given to each clinical site who sent a representative to the Age One “Connect the Dotsâ€? Training. Training evaluations will be used to improve the materials for eventual replication in a recorded webinar format.
Southwest Health and Human Services 4-H: An important stakeholder group in a community project The Southwest Health and Human Services 4–H project is four fold:
1) To unite all
stakeholders who own the caries problem affecting the community’s high-risk children. 2) To increase oral health literacy community-wide. 3) To train primary care medical providers (PCMP) to provide caries prevention services (CPS) (oral exam, paper and pencil risk assessment, anticipatory guidance about caries etiology and caregiver’s role in prevention), application of uoride varnish quarterly, and advising the caregiver that FV is not a substitute for a dental home or for sealants. CPS services should be initiated by age one and thereafter as part of routine well/ill childcare to all high-risk (Medicaid) children. 4) To get community dentists to take referrals without regard to insurance status if the PCMP will offer CPS as part of well/ill child care and will tutor dentists to feel comfortable with 1 – 3 year olds. These efforts will be closely monitored for compliance by the community’s stakeholders. In addition, 4-H youth will develop public service announcements to be read over local radio/TV stations, displays and other appropriate media presentations. They will gain skills in designing and delivering messages in ways that connect skills to active citizenry. 4-H will promote Oral Health zones at local functions (picnics, ice cream socials, town hall meetings), city council meetings, medical and dental clinics, etc. Their being well known by the community will enhance the community’s acceptance of the message that they deliver. They will be interviewed by local press and will be the voice of the local Oral Health Zone project.
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Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Books, Brushing, and Bedtime (BBB) Books, Brushing and Bedtime (BBB) is an innovative, pediatric dental clinic-based literacy intervention project. This project uses the pediatric dentistry anticipatory guidance discussion as an opportunity to promote healthy bedtime routines, specifically brushing a child’s teeth with fluoridated toothpaste and discouraging putting children to bed with a bottle of juice or milk, as well as establishing positive literacy habits such as reading at bedtime. Families with a child between the ages of 12 months and 60 months participating in this project will be given a new, dental-related children’s book at every recall appointment. By the conclusion of the BBB Program, our goals for the caregivers include the following: 1) Increase healthy bedtime routines, specifically brushing their children’s teeth before bed and reading a bedtime story 2) Increase oral health literacy 3) Maintain routine dental care visits for their children 4) Have children with decreased incidence of dental decay and 5) Have children with an increased preference for reading.
Case Western Reserve University Oral Health Patient Navigation for Underserved Populations Families in under-resourced areas have difficulty accessing dental health services for themselves and their children. The CWRU Dental School’s Healthy Smiles Sealant Program, which serves 5,500 children annually in the Cleveland public school district, seeks to enhance the referral, follow-up and self-management support for families in this district through oral health care coordination services after examination by the Healthy Smiles Sealant Program. Specifically, an oral health patient navigator would assist families with identifying and accessing local dental services for urgent and routine care, facilitate establishing a dental home and routine preventive care through supportive communication and education for families on an on-going basis, and act as a resource and liaison for oral health information and community-based oral health resources.
Care Free Medical, Inc. Pay It Forward Dental Access Initiative Care Free Medical, Inc., in partnership with the Central District Dental Society, will provide acute dental services for adult residents without dental insurance in exchange for patients completing community service hours. Care Free Medical, Inc. (CFMI) has operated in Mason and Lansing, MI since 2004, putting into action the belief that every individual—regardless of ability to pay—deserves access to comprehensive and compassionate health care. CFMI offers a patient centered medical home model, which focuses on addressing the total health care needs of individuals and their families. Serving the most needy in the Mid-Michigan area, CFMI provides a multitude of on-site health care services including: primary, dental, optometry, behavioral health, and after-hours care.
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In 2013, the DTA Foundation Grants Committee made a decision to reach out to past grant recipients that had outstanding results but now need funding to move their project to the national level. The Children’s Oral Health Institute ‘Lessons in a Lunchbox’ was selected as the first program to receive this second level of funding.
The Children’s Oral Health Institute Lessons in a Lunch Box Road Map: Guidelines to Introduce the Program in Public Schools Lessons in a Lunch Box: Healthy Teeth Essentials & Facts About Snacks™ is an oral health literacy program designed to empower children and their families with the proper knowledge about personal oral health care. The program addresses routine dental health maintenance, dietary guidelines and good meal choices and careers in dentistry, using an exclusively designed lunch box. The Children’s Oral Health Institute will use the 2013-14 DTA Foundation funding leverage to provide a “Lessons in a Lunch Box Road Map: Guidelines to Introduce the Program in Public Schools.” The road map is being developed to help interested dental schools/dental students (ASDA, SNDA, FQHC) and other organizations to independently offer the program and move toward helping to incorporate oral health education in public schools. The information needed to independently sustain the program provided via a Lessons in a Lunch Box Road Map can strengthen the sustainability of the program by creating more opportunities for dental schools and states throughout the country to coordinate the initiative within their local framework. This program has the potential to create more statewide visibility, attracting larger scale funding potentially from state government, local corporations, foundations and individual donors. It has the potential as well to create national interest that might offer federal financial latitude based on demographics. The road map will offer meaningful recommendations to incorporate the program into state public school curriculum. It will recommend the program be considered for local/state dental school public health curriculum as one of the community outreach options for acceptance by the faculty toward graduation requirements. Both could lead to larger scale funding.
In 2013 the Dental Lifeline Network partnered with the DTA Foundation to fund a grant project that specifically targets improving the oral health of medically at-risk or special needs patients. This year’s DTAF/DLN grant funds were awarded to Howard University.
Howard University An Innovative Approach to Inter-professional Oral Care for the Elderly This project is designed to: 1) Develop a standardized protocol for integrating dental health into comprehensive care in elderly nursing home patients that will allow the nursing staff to triage the patients’ oral health needs according to varying levels of complexity and urgency; 2) Train nursing staff to provide oral exams and categorize the patients into varying categories of clinical severity and urgency as described in aim 1; 3) Pilot test the protocol for integrating dental and medical services into clinical care and foster greater inter-professional collaboration in treating elderly patients in nursing homes; and 4) Determine if an affordable adjunctive telemedicine option that will allow off-site assistance in triaging the patient’s oral health by a dentist can be obtained. This will provide more accuracy in classification of the oral health of the nursing home patients. This project will utilize telemedicine technology currently in use at Howard University Hospital.
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2013 Grant Recipients •
University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Den Dental Medicine: Improved Access to Oral Care through Increased Oral Health Literacy.
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Pennsylvania Head Start Association: The P Pennsylvania Age One “Connect the Dots” Pilot Project .
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Southwest Health and Human Services: 44-H: An Important Stakeholder Group in a Community Project.
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Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania: Books, Brushing, and Bedtime.
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Case Western Reserve University: Oral H Health Patient Navigation for Underserved Populations.
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Care Free Medical, Inc.: Pay It Forward D Dental Access Initiative.
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The Children’s Oral Health Institute: L Lessons In A Lunch Box Road Map: Guidelines to Introduce the Program in Public Schools.
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Howard University: An Innovative App Approach to Inter-professional Oral Care for the Elderly. (joint DTAF / Dental Lifeline Network Grant)
2012 Grant Recipie Recipients •
Senior Mobile Dental: Establishin Establishing the Effectiveness of Teledentistry and Collaborative Care.
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Kids Smiles, Inc.: Oral Health Ed Education for Under-Served Children Using an Integrated Oral and Medical Care Model.
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Southern Jersey Family Medica Medical Centers, Inc.: Projects PEDs (Pediatricians Preventing Early Dental Diseases).
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American Medical Directors As Association: Oral Health for Long-Term Care Residents Toolkit.
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Case Western Reserve Univers University: Hybrid Geriatric Dentistry Program.
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American Association of Publ Public Health Dentistry: Public Health Dentistry - Educating the Next Generation.
2011 Grant Recip Recipients •
Oral Health America: Wisdom Tooth Project seeks to improve the oral health of vulnerable older adults.
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American Academy of Pediat Pediatrics: Training grants & oral health kits for AAP Chapter Oral Health Advocates.
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Metropolitan State University University: Advanced Dental Therapists providing community-based care for undeserved populations.
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Children’s Dental Health Proj Project: Children’s Dental Health Project & Affordable Care Act Implementation Project.
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University of Maryland, Colle College Park: Oral Health Education for Pregnant Teens.
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University of Pittsburgh, Division Div of General Academic Pediatrics: Caries-risk factor assessment and counseling by pediatricians.
2010 Grant Recip Recipients •
California Dental Association F Foundation: Virtual Dental Home through teledentistry technology.
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Kids Smiles: Wider Smiles - ora oral health education, screening, and preventive care to at-risk children in Washington, D.C.
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The Forsyth Institute: ForsythKid ForsythKids - an evidence-based comprehensive prevention program for at-risk elementary school children.
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College: Incorporating oral health into the medical school curriculum. The Commonwealth Medical Col
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University of Kentucky College of o Dentistry: Certified Nursing Assistant training to provide daily oral hygiene for nursing home residents.
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2009 Grant Recipients •
Children’s Dental Health Project: Provided technical policy assistance to federal and state governments and child advocates as they worked to implement dental provisions incorporated in the federal Child Health Insurance Program.
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Smiles for Success: Free dental services for women in welfare-to-work programs.
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Piedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation: Increased access to oral health care for needy adults through dental student programs.
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TeamSmile Dental Outreach: Free dental services for underserved children in the community by teaming up with dental and sports professionals to provide a unique, one-of-a-kind experience.
2008 Grant Recipients • •
Apple Tree Dental: Provided dental services to seniors and frail elders living in long-term care settings. University of Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine: Provided social work services to patients in the pediatric dental clinic and their families, in order to remove barriers to dental care and increase patient access and retention.
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University of California, School of Dentistry: “Oral Health Promotion During Pregnancy in a Group Prenatal Care Model” nicknamed “CPOP”, trained providers to incorporate oral health assessments, education and referrals into the prenatal appointments with the pregnant patients.
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University of Washington School of Dentistry: Provided an update on the status of the oral health of America and changes that took place as a result of the 2000 Surgeon General’s report on oral health.
2007 Grant Recipients •
University of New York at Buffalo: a two-year study of patients with diabetes mellitus, to predict periodontal disease within this population and develop protocols to improve access to oral health care that leveraged additional funding from Procter and Gamble.
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Mississippi Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics: Provided tools to doctors to promote children’s oral health care from prenatal stages to preschool and beyond.
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Maryland Children’s Oral Health Institute: Lessons in a Lunch Box: Healthy Teeth Essentials & Facts About Snacks, helped primary school children learn why good dental hygiene, dental visits, and smart choices in eating habits are important.
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University of Colorado Denver, School of Dental Medicine: Una Boca Saludable, a public service advertising campaign to promote oral health care literacy and outreach to Hispanic communities in the greater Denver area.
2002 - 2006 Grant Recipients •
Call, R. and Karshmer, B.: Examination of alternative forms of dental insurance on inhibiting access to care.
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Deinard, A.: Anderson Schools Family Dental Project.
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Domer, L. and Call, R.: A Pilot Study to Determine Barriers to Implementing Productivity Enhancement Strategies in Dental Practices.
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Duffin, S.: An examination of current and potential roles for expanded, hybrid, and mid-level, paraprofessional practitioners.
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Henshaw, M.: Dental Action Literacy Project.
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McClain, Mildred: A comparative ‘outcomes assessment’ of selected dental practice curricula, with an eye toward developing improved instructional materials for dental students and practitioner.
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Miranda, S.: The role of Promotores in accessing existing oral health services – Bi-national model.
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Niederman, R.: Implement a primary prevention elementary school program – Planning Grant.
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Rossomonda, E.: Feasibility study of new technology on dental office productivity and access.
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Investment Income - $47,384
2013 Expenses* Grant Awards - $204,203
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Scholarships Expense - $20,000
Community Relations - $4,652
Fundraising - $159,011
Other Programs - $4,280
General & Administrative - $27,835
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2013 Ad Council* Ad Council Expenses - $1,171,939
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Ad Council Reserve Receipts - $226,364
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Long Island Community Foundation: Stanley & Marion Bergman
Platinum Level Donors: $25,000 - $49,999 For better dentistry
Gold Level Donors: $10,000 - $24,999
Silver Level Donors: $5,000 - $9,999
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Bronze Level Donors: $2,500 - $4,999
Individual Donors Diamond $10,000 - $15,000 Savage, Robert & Abby (Ironman Triathlon)
Platinum $5,000 - $9,999 Breslawski, Jim
Silver $1,250 - $2,499 Hinsch, Paul & Krista Parker, Andrew Saslow, Ron & Ellen Serota, Ken Steinberg, Gary & Deborah
Bronze $500 - $1,249 Aho, Wayne Augins, Mike Doyle, Laura & Ken Lynam, Mike
Patron Level Donors: $1,000 - $2,499
McHugh, Lynne McKey, Josh Merrick, Steve Miller, Alex Mondock, Paul Price, Gary & Lois Shirley, Eric Sullivan, Tim & Kay Thomas, Kevin Waitsman, Vickie Wise, Brett & June Wolfe, George & Julie
Patron $250 - $499 Brown, Kirk Gordon, Jeff Orecchia, Mike Parrilli, Dan Paulson, Lori Powers, Dr. John Whitehead, Andy Winters, Bill & Monica
Friends <$250 Miranda, Rich Peterson, Chris Truett, Beth
Friends: <$1,000 Dental Tribune America, LLC Fitzpatrick Management Resources Handler Red Wing International, Inc. OraTech Yates Motloid
Donations in memory of Joan Austin: Cohen Family Charitable Trust Henry Schein Dental Tim & Kay Sullivan > @
ERDUG RI GLUHFWRUV Officers
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Treasurer
Immediate Past Chairman
Scott Parrish President A-dec, Inc.
Paul Hinsch Vice President â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Marketing Henry Schein
Bob Savage, Jr., Chief Financial Officer Drake Precision Dental Laboratory, Inc.
Steve R. Knight President/CEO Crown Seating, LLC
our vision: To be a premier foundation in oral health care uniting the dental industry to create and attract innovative solutions, leverage and expand resources to fund unique and promising initiatives that achieve measurable impact and facilitate real change. The Secretary/CEO
Executive Director
Gary W. Price Chief Executive Officer Dental Trade Alliance
Laura Fleming Doyle Executive Director Dental Trade Alliance Foundation
industry will recognize the results of this important work and notice substantially improved access to oral health care for those in need.
DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE // TERM TO 2014
David Burch, Senior Vice President Bank of America
Todd Norbe President Total Care/Orascoptic
Andrew Whitehead Senior Vice President Crosstex International
DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE // TERM TO 2015
Rick Cohen Managing Director Benco Dental Company
Diana Friedman President and CEO Sesame Communications
Lori Paulson Vice President of Marketing National Distribution & Contracting, Inc.
Lorene Kent President Belmont Publications, Inc.
DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE // TERM TO 2016
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Rick Cacciatore North Central Regional Manager Patterson Dental
Kevin Thomas Managing Member Elevate Oral Care
Daniel Thomas President W&H North America
George Wolfe President DMG America, LLC
core purpose: To broaden oral health care awareness and access for those in need.
core values: Oral Health â&#x20AC;&#x201C; We are focused on oral health, access to care and its connection to overall health.
Stewardship â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
We will
manage our resources to drive innovation and stimulate creative projects in a sound and
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responsible
manner.
Enduring Positive Impact â&#x20AC;&#x201C; We will measure the results of our projects by their long term impact on oral health care awareness and access for those in need. > @
DENTAL TRADE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION 4350 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 220, Arlington, VA 22203 phone: 703.379.7755
fax: 703.931.9429
email: dtafoundation@dentaltradealliance.org w w w. d t a fo u n d a t i o n . o r g The DTAF is a 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.