2010 Special Smiles - Special Olympics
As you know, the National Special Olympics will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska, July 19 through July 23, 2010. This will be an exciting week in Lincoln, with thousands of special athletes, their families, caregivers, coaches, celebrities, etc. attending. This will be a wonderful time for the Nebraska Dental Association to make a difference in people’s lives on a national level.
We will have a rare and wonderful opportunity as dental professionals to help during that week. We will be providing services at two sites during the week of the Special Olympics: At Pershing Center, we will have a clinic for Special Smiles athletes, providing prophies, sealants, mouth guards, simple restorative and extraction procedures, if needed, and fluoride applications. We will be using NMOM equipment for our clinic. At the UNMC College of Dentistry, we will have a clinic providing dental services including emergency care if a special athlete has a dental injury, as well as other dental procedures that would be more appropriate to provide at the college. During that week we also plan on providing exams and services to non-athlete patients with special needs at the UNMC College of Dentistry and help them find a dental home if they are in need of one.
The official hours of the Special Smiles Clinic at Pershing Center will run from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Friday of Special Olympics week. The Special Smiles Clinic at the UNMC College of Dentistry will run from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday of Special Olympics week.
For those of you who have signed up to participate as a volunteer, you will be receiving periodic emails from the NDA as it relates to scheduling.
Please note we are not holding a traditional NMOM clinic in 2010 due to our participation in the Special Smiles Clinic; so if your community would like to have an NMOM clinic in 2011 or beyond, be sure to let Steve Anderson, John Alschwede, Jim States, or Dr. Jim Jenkins know. We would like to identify NMOM sites for the next several years after 2010. We would welcome the chance to help you put on an NMOM in your town!
