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The director of the U. H. Maui Dental Hygiene School, Miss Rosie Vierra, has set up programs for her dental hygiene students to visit Maui schools along with volunteer members of the Maui County Dental Society to teach dental healthcare to the students. The team at Kamali'i Elementary on Thursday consisted of four dental hygiene students, two hygenists and assistants from Dr. Kelly Adams office and Scott Kanamori, one of the volunteer dentists.


The presentations the dental hygiene team made at Kamali'i Sschool were:

  • Learning proper brushing techniques, which they demonstrate on stuffed animals with life-size dentures.

  • Learning how to floss between all the teeth, which the kids practice by using plastic string to remove play dough stuck between the bumps on a plastic tray, like removing food from between teeth.

  • Learning which foods are good for your teeth and which foods will cause cavities. For this each student was given a picture of a food and asked to put it on the side of a display for "good" food or the side for "bad" food.

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The kids went back to their classrooms with a new toothbrush, dental floss, tooth paste and an Angry Birds sticker.


Scott said that our club could invite the dental hygiene team and him to do their presentation with kids at any location. 

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