{"id":26275,"date":"2013-09-06T09:20:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=26275"},"modified":"2013-09-06T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:28:53","slug":"dual-school-partnership-brings-free-dental-clinic-to-low-income-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/dual-school-partnership-brings-free-dental-clinic-to-low-income-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual school partnership brings free dental clinic to low-income families"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26277\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26277\" alt=\"NAU and Fortis College students\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/nau_fortis.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/09\/nau_fortis.jpg 450w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/09\/nau_fortis-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Northern Arizona University and Fortis College-Phoenix pose at the Wesley Community Health Center after their dental hygiene clinic for families at the center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students from Northern Arizona University and Fortis College-Phoenix recently partnered on a cross-disciplinary community service project promoting good oral health to an underserved Arizona community.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership brought together NAU\u2019s physician assistant students and Fortis\u2019 dental hygiene students as hosts of a dental hygiene clinic for a low-income community in central Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimary care providers like physician assistants often see children under the age of 5 years well before they may first see the dentist,\u201d said <b>Michelle DiBaise<\/b>, associate clinical professor of NAU physician assistant studies, based in Phoenix.\u00a0\u201cUnderstanding the importance of good oral health, teaching how to prevent cavities and the application of fluoride varnish are important and necessary skills for all health care providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project kicked off with a hands-on training session by Fortis College students, who showed NAU\u2019s physician assistant students how to apply fluoride varnish. After perfecting their techniques, both groups of students invited families from the Wesley Community Health Center in Phoenix to participate in voluntary oral health screenings and fluoride varnish application.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the students provided free preventative oral health care services to nearly 50 patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with the dental hygiene students gave our students the opportunity to learn these valuable skills while reaching out to patients in this underserved community of central Phoenix,\u201d DiBaise said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/dual-school-partnership-brings-free-dental-clinic-to-low-income-families\/\">Students from Northern Arizona University and Fortis College-Phoenix recently partnered on a cross-disciplinary community service project promoting good oral health to an underserved Arizona community. The partnership brought together NAU\u2019s physician assistant students and Fortis\u2019 dental hygiene students as hosts of a dental hygiene clinic for a low-income community in central Phoenix. \u201cPrimary care providers&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":26277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}