The Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) recently unveiled a new Ronald McDonald Care Mobile in Northwest Arkansas that it claims will be the area’s first mobile dental clinic. The 40-ft-long mobile clinic will travel to 19 elementary schools in Benton and Washington counties that have the highest number of students receiving free and reduced lunches. Parents of students in these schools will receive information with further details about how their

Bottled water already receives much flak because of its contributions to global environmental waste issues. Now a new study finds it may also be contributing to poor oral heath in some children. Drinking bottled water was an important modifiable risk factor for early childhood caries (ECC) among immigrant, low-income communities, according to preliminary findings from a new University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study presented at the American Public Health

The current issue of Academic Pediatrics, devoted entirely to children’s oral health, offers a ”midterm examination” of how far the U.S. has come since the 2000 Surgeon General’s report in meeting Healthy People 2010 oral health objectives and other key recommendations (Academic Pediatrics, Nov/Dec 2009, Vol. 9:6). Bringing together 19 contributions from experts in dentistry, medicine, nursing, and public policy, Academic Pediatrics guest editors Wendy E. Mouradian and Rebecca L.

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) has hired a large public relations firm to raise awareness of the importance of pediatric dentistry. MWW Group, which calls itself “one of the nation’s top ten public relations firms,” said it “will spearhead an integrated communications program for the AAPD to help raise public awareness of the pediatric dentistry profession, the importance of children’s oral health to overall health, and reinforce the