Illinois Dental Program Serves Migrants
Author: Julie A. Jacob
Date Published: 1991
This article describes an Illinois Migrant Council program that provides dental care to migrant children every summer in attempt to lower their rates of teeth decay. The program combines the services of Loyola University dental students, private dentists and county public health departments and treats children enrolled in migrant Head Start and education programs. Health providers sometimes travel in a mobile dental van to migrant housing sites clean teeth, place restorations, apply sealants and fluoride treatments and teach children how to brush and floss correctly. "Susan Bauer knew serendipity when she saw it. Among the grant proposals piled on her desk one day in '83 was 1 from the IL Department of Public Health offering the use of a mobile dental van." Discusses the mobile dental van and it's outreach to migrant farmworkers.
Date Published: 1991
This article describes an Illinois Migrant Council program that provides dental care to migrant children every summer in attempt to lower their rates of teeth decay. The program combines the services of Loyola University dental students, private dentists and county public health departments and treats children enrolled in migrant Head Start and education programs. Health providers sometimes travel in a mobile dental van to migrant housing sites clean teeth, place restorations, apply sealants and fluoride treatments and teach children how to brush and floss correctly. "Susan Bauer knew serendipity when she saw it. Among the grant proposals piled on her desk one day in '83 was 1 from the IL Department of Public Health offering the use of a mobile dental van." Discusses the mobile dental van and it's outreach to migrant farmworkers.
