2008 Give Kids A Smile

Patient Information

The North Texas Dental Society 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

The GKAS program is only available to children in need who because of financial limitations are unable to access dental care through traditional private practice facilities.  In order to qualify, the parents of these children must demonstrate such need through their participating schools.  Local school nurses have agreed to assist in the identification and enrollment of underserved children in their schools.  Guidelines for qualification can be obtained through their offices.

Local school nurses will be able to register qualified patients and provide all necessary documentation that is required of each patient before assignment to a treating doctor.  Parents must complete this information no later than January 15, 2008 and turn it in to the nurse in order to qualify.  Incomplete forms or failure to turn them in by the due date will disqualify the child from participating in the GKAS event.

School nurses will provide the completed registrations to the GKAS Committee.  The Committee in turn will use this information to make treatment charts for each patient and then distribute them to the volunteer doctors. 

GKAS patients will be directly assigned to doctors in their respective communities for preventative and basic care (availability of volunteer doctors will determine patient assignments).  The office of the volunteer doctor will then contact the parents of their assigned GKAS patients to schedule an appointment for them.  It is the responsibility of the parents to be sure that the child is at the doctor’s office on-time for the scheduled appointment.  Failure to do so may result in that child being unable to receive dental care.     

Children in need of specialized treatment will be identified by their primary care doctors and referred to appropriate volunteer specialists for further care. 

For further information or to find out how your child may qualify as a GKAS patient, please contact Lisa McLerran at 214-708-6919.  Email inquiries may be directed to gkas_1@yahoo.com. .