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- 1. Future Plans and Dreams
Oral Health Coalition
May 26, 2010
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- 2. Seal-A-Smile Program
2010-2012
•expand Seal-A-Smile to other schools with children
at high risk of dental disease
•adopt 2-year rotation schedule for Seal-A-Smile
schools
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- 3. The following schools do not meet 3 or more COHS goals.
Public Health Services will be expanding the
Seal-A-Smile program to include these schools in 2010-11:
• Bishop Filevich
• Hugh Cairns
• Brevoort Park
• Lanigan
• Buena Vista
• Sutherland
• Clavet
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- 4. The following schools do not meet
4 or more COHS goals. Services are provided by:
University of Saskatchewan, College of Dentistry
Mayfair
Westmount
White Buffalo Youth Lodge
Pleasant Hill
Princess Alexandra
St. Francis
St. Mary
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- 5. Masters of Public Health Student
Work
2009: Vinay Kumar
•12 Regional and Provincial Dental Screening Reports
2010: Genevieve Braganza
•Dental Health Survey with Vulnerable Populations
•Study of children under 6 who have had surgery, including
for dental treatment
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- 6. Public Health Services
Dental Clinic
How can we help families who have no
insurance and minimal ability to pay for
services, to establish a “dental home?”
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- 7. Partnerships
How can we work more collaboratively with:
•EGADZ
•Food for Thought
•Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby
•Kids First
•Saskatoon Open Door Society
•School Divisions
•SWITCH
•Westside Community Clinic
•White Buffalo Youth Lodge
•YWCA
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- 8. How can we work with other
organizations and agencies to
disseminate oral health messages and
information?
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- 9. Sooner, Safer, Smarter:
A Plan to Transform the Surgical Patient
Experience – March 2010
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- 10. Sooner, Safer, Smarter:
A Plan to Transform the Surgical Patient
Experience – March 2010
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© 2010, Saskatoon Health Region
- 11. Ministry of Health and
Saskatoon Health Region
Senior Strategies
How can we collaboratively work together to ensure
oral health issues are included for:
•Long Term Care residents
•Older adults and seniors who cannot access care due to
cost or mobility
•Vulnerable adults in the community
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- 12. Provincial
Dental Health Officer
Advocate for a provincial dental health officer
who is a public health dentist and will:
•liaison with Chief Deputy Health Officer of Canada, and
with other provinces
•Develop provincial oral health plan to address oral
health inequities
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