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2008 Give Kids A Smile
Dentist Information
The North Texas Dental Society (NTDS) encompasses nine counties, including Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, and Rockwall. “Give Kids a Smile” is currently helping children in the communities of:
Allen Denton Lewisville Princeton
Celina Frisco McKinney Prosper
Denison Flower Mound Plano Rockwall
Sherman
We hope to provide needed dental care to 300 underserved children who have demonstrated an inability to receive care through the traditional private practice system. To accomplish this we need you, the NTDS member-doctors, to step up and volunteer your services! Current membership in our dental society is 400 and growing. The talents and skills of all our member-doctors, including specialists, are critical to the success of GKAS in 2008.
General dentists are being asked to treat 4-8 patients in their offices during the month of February, 2008 (dependent on availability of needed volunteers). Children will be selected by their school nurses according to dental need. All qualified children will have been carefully screened. Their parents will be required to fill out patient registration forms and releases for treatment prior to assignment to a local volunteer doctor.
The GKAS Committee will create a patient chart for each patient, and have them distributed to your office by January 22, 2008. It is the responsibility of the volunteer doctor to contact the parents of each assigned GKAS patient directly to schedule an appointment for treatment. Dental care should be focused on preventative services and urgent needs at a minimum, and as much basic treatment as the volunteer doctor desires to provide. Comprehensive care is not required.
We are asking general dentists to serve as primary caregivers, and are recruiting specialists to be available for specialty care when needed. General dentists will make recommendation back to the GKAS Committee for those children with additional needs. They will then be assigned to volunteer-specialists. In the event that a GKAS patient misses or is late for an appointment, the volunteer doctor may use his/her discretion regarding re-appointment. It is ultimately the parents’ responsibility to keep the appointment and be on-time.
The timetable for all in-office primary care to be rendered is from February 15 through March 15. It is then hoped that all remaining specialty care be completed by March 30, 2008. Upon completion of a child’s treatment, all charts are to be collected by the GKAS Committee for safekeeping. Each dentist will be asked to keep track of the total amount of free dental care provided to each patient by filling out a "Completed Treatment Totals" form. These forms will be necessary to tabulate the results to share our grand total with the ADA, local legislators and other policymakers.
If for any reason you are unable to volunteer your services to this worthy cause, please consider making a financial contribution to GKAS 2008. All donations will go to defraying the costs of putting on this event and assist in providing needed materials for use by our volunteer doctors.
To sign up and volunteer your services or learn more about how you can get involved, contact Lisa McLerran at 214-708-6919 Email inquiries may be directed to gkas_1@yahoo.com .
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Listed Alphabetically
by City.
Allen, TX
Stephen Dickey
Lisi Garciamendea
Tammy Gough
Jessie Hunter
Mike Mason
Brian Wakefield
Scott Williams
Jeff and Steve Williams
Anna, TX
Tom Brian
Carrollton, TX
Jeffrey D. Holt
Celina, TX
John Fallis
Coppell, TX
Sonia Louca
Corinth, TX
Alan M. Gross
Dallas, TX
Gary Solomon
Alejandra Villasenor
Denison, TX
Charles Beatty
Tom Lankford
Stephen McAnaney
Lanny Youree
Denton, TX
John Withers
Frisco, TX
Sara Bender
Caleen Cantrell
Ben Edmunds
Kelli Ettlebrick
Greg Hulings
Clyde Lee
Diane Lide
Carlos Nurko
Paul Rubin
Kirk Scott
Paige Sohn
Anjum Ullah
Highland Village, TX
Jessica Bell
Jason Clapp
McKinney, TX
Hames Barnes
Tim Birster
Mark Craig
David McCarley
H. Arthur Nelson
David Philofsky
Terry Scott
Tim Shannon
Paul Spence
Plano, TX
Tipton Asher
William Bolak
Rebecca Bork
Darren Dickson
Jay Hidalgo
Sharon Hill
Kirk Kooker
Sherman, TX
Bill Gray
Janis Jenkins
Mark Smith
