Participating in 2015 GKAS? Share your photos The 2015 Give Kids A Smile Day is Feb. 6, and program coordinators nationwide should have their digital cameras ready to capture the highlights of the event. The ADA News welcomes digital photo submissions from GKAS program participants -- including candid pictures of children, dentists and team members interacting and clinical photos (patients in the chair, dental team in gloves, masks and protective eyewear). Be sure to include identification of those pictured and facts about your event. Send high-resolution photos for consideration for use in the ADA News in print and online to [email protected] as soon as possible following your event. Program coordinators can also post photos on the new ADA GKAS Facebook page (http://facebook.com/GiveKidsASmile). Clinical photos submitted for the site should also show

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Participating in 2015 GKAS? Share your photos

The 2015 Give Kids A Smile Day is Feb. 6, and program coordinators nationwide should have theirdigital cameras ready to capture the highlights of the event.

The ADA News welcomes digital photo submissions fromGKAS program participants -- including candid pictures ofchildren, dentists and team members interacting andclinical photos (patients in the chair, dental team ingloves, masks and protective eyewear). Be sure to includeidentification of those pictured and facts about your event.

Send high-resolution photos for consideration for use in the ADA News in print and online [email protected] as soon as possible following your event.

Program coordinators can also post photos on the new ADA GKAS Facebookpage (http://facebook.com/GiveKidsASmile). Clinical photos submitted for the site should also show

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dental professionals using universal precautions.

With GKAS Day just a couple of weeks away, a total of 1,324 GKAS events have registered, andestimate they will treat nearly 320,000 children on or around Feb. 6. Nearly 8,000 dentists andalmost 25,000 other dental team members and lay volunteers will be providing care to kids in needthrough GKAS programs.

Programs are encouraged to register if they haven't done so yet -- either before or after their events,and all program coordinators/dentist participants are asked to report their actual program totalsfollowing their events.

Log on to givekidsasmile.ada.org. GKAS corporate sponsors continue to generously support theprogram. Henry Schein Dental will provide professional dental kits containing gloves, patient bibsand bib holders, masks, plastic cups, tongue depressors, gauze pads, prophy angles and past,fluoride varnish and chair sleeves. Colgate Palmolive Co. has donated toothbrushes and toothpaste.DEXIS Digital X-ray Systems will donate the use of their X-ray units and the expertise of their staff toU.S. dental schools requesting assistance, state associations and large group practices during GKAS.

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