From sk22 at georgetown.edu  Thu Jun  5 10:26:57 2008
From: sk22 at georgetown.edu (Sarah Kolo)
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:26:57 -0400
Subject: [OHRC] New Head Start tip sheet from OHRC
Message-ID: <4847F7B1.3040005@georgetown.edu>

A new tip sheet from the National Maternal and Child Oral Health 
Resource Center (OHRC), Dentists and Head Start: What You Should Know 
and How You Can Help, provides information about how dentists can help 
address the oral health needs of pregnant women, infants, and children 
enrolled in Head Start. The tip sheet includes an overview of the Head 
Start program, participant characteristics, the burden of oral disease 
for participants, Head Start oral health services, and opportunities for 
dentists to become involved.

An electronic copy of the dentists and Head Start tip sheet is available at
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/PDFs/HSDentists.pdf

Single or multiple print copies are also available at no charge from the 
HRSA Information Center, P.O. Box 2910, Merrifield, VA 22116, phone: 
(888) ASK-HRSA (275-4772), fax: (703) 821-2098, e-mail: ask at hrsa.gov. 
Inventory code MCH00257.

See also the companion tip sheet, Dental Hygienists and Head Start: What 
You Should Know and How You Can Help, available at
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/PDFs/HSRDH.pdf

View a list of all of OHRC's publications online at
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/materials/allOHRC.html

Posted by:
Sarah Kolo
National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
Georgetown University
Box 571272
Washington, DC 20057-1272
(202) 784-9553
sk22 at georgetown.edu