Description:  Special Olympics Special Smiles is a non-intrusive dental screening. It provides athletes with hygiene education to help ensure they are doing an adequate job of brushing and flossing, as well as nutritional education to understand how their diet affects their total health. The athletes also are provided with a list of dentists/clinics in their area who will treat patients with special needs, should they have difficulty finding a dentist.

Criteria for Clinical Director: In Florida for Special Smiles , a local volunteer clinical director can be a licensed dentist or dental hygienist. Licensed dentists and licensed dental hygienist can perform the actual screening. It is preferred that a dentist is on site at every screening but is not mandatory.

Areas in Need of Clinical Directors

 

State Summer Games
May 15-16, 2009

Thank you for your willingness to volunteer your time during Summer Games to assist with Special Smiles.  Our registration deadline has passed. We value your participation and urge you to check back for screening opportunities at our 11 Area Games throughout the state in September and October and our State Fall Classic on October 30-31, 2009.

Thank you for keeping our athletes healthy on and off the playing field!

 

For those of you who are registered, here's some reminders for this event:
 

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