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The Greater Seattle Dental Hygienists' Society represents dental hygienists in the Greater Seattle area. The mission of the Greater Seattle Dental Hygienists' Society is to increase awareness of and access to quality oral health care, to promote the highest standards of research and education, licensure and practice for dental hygienists, and to represent and promote the interests of the dental hygiene profession, as a means to improve the public's health.

Dinner meeting with Seattle Central Graduating Dental Hygiene Students on May 9th at 6:30pm.

Note: This meeting is not located at the Good Shepherd Center but at the Seattle Vocational Institute. Map and directions Park in the back parking lot. Take the elevator up to the 4th floor and the room is on the left side.

This meeting will start at 6:30pm with dinner that we will provide. Then at 7pm we will have a short joint meeting with the Snohomish Component, followed by a one credit CE course. Come and welcome these new grads into the profession!

Thanks for a successful Sealant Day

Annual Sealant Day was held Saturday March 10th. from 9- 3 PM. We again had our volunteer project at Shoreline Community College's Dental Hygiene Clinic. They generously allowed us to use the facility at a minimal cost. Several fabulous companies and dentists have made significant donations. There were lots of highly appreciated volunteers, plus a special Kudos to the Shoreline faculty and staff for supporting.

Clydene Evans-Wenzel organized this tremendous Sealant Day for GSDHS this year. We treated 86 children with each child having an individual appointment time; a significant feat in itself. Clydene really out did herself with all the advertising through school districts, PTA's and community outreach programs. She almost doubled the number of children seen since the 2011 Sealant Day. About $28,650 worth of free dental care was provided. Additionally we tracked treatment with the following results:

431 sealants placed
84 fluoride treatments provided
17.5% had untreated decay
20% had not seen a dentist/never been to a dentist in more than two years.

The volunteers were enjoyable to work with. Breakfast/ Lunch nibbles were organized by Gail Arshon and she even competed for check out time when Costco had an electricity failure. A gift basket was raffled off. Vickie Laer, RDH was the winner. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the following companies and individuals for the materials were provided by:

Clinpro Sealant Material Fabulous (pink on placement/white when cured) donation was facilitated by Mark Konings at 3M
MI Recaldent Fluoride Varnish donation was facilitated by Tom Meintz at GC America Inc.
Henry Schein and representative Mark Kennedy
Dr. Pamela Sursely from Totem Lake Smiles
Mark Hegeberg from Crest Oral B
Kristi Graham from Burkhart
Dr Mike Velling
GSDHS funded prizes, toothbrushes , toothpastes and paid the cost of marketing the event, rental of facility and additional necessary supplies.

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR FANTASTIC VOLUNTEERS

RDHs

Salima Alibhai
Shawn Anderson
Gail Arshon
Delores Banfield
Courtney Barron
Rosie Bellert
Brittany Bjork
Lily Bramlet
Hayley Deane
Clydene Evans-Wenzel
Claudette Fong
Alison Gosset
Andrea Higgins
Megan Hunt
Mariana Keene
Angi Klevenberg
Jen Kniss
Linda Kryimis
Vickie Laer
Melinda Lane
Shelley Lebert
Kim McLaren
Jane Moreno
Debbie Puetz
Gail Rojas
Paula Stout
Scarlett Wolfe
Elinne Wright
Kami Ayasith
Bi Thai
Trina Muatsgaugya

DDS's

Dr David Chen
Dr Gregory Chinn
Dr Nikki Honey
Dr Christine Kirchner
Dr Rao
Dr Mike Velling

Clinic Manager for Shoreline

Marie Batalia

DA's

Kaitlin Csonka
Sothea Ya

Dental Hygiene Students

Le Au(SCCC)
Kelly Dunn (SCC)
Emily Greer (SCCC)
Amanda Horman(SCC)
Nathan McIntosh (SCCC)
Maria Nguyen (SCC)
Oksana Paslavsky (SCC)
Ana Ramirez (SCCC)
Autumn Roth (SCC)
Jataun Smith (SCCC)
Thearith So (SCC)
Andrea Thomas (SCC)
Kim Tran (SCC)
Julie Trinka (SCC)
Jaime Westby(SCCC)
Keriann Yamaguchi(SCCC)

	Next General Meeting
Date		May 9, 2012 6:30 PM
Topic		Dinner with Seattle Central CC students at SVI
Credit		One CE credit
Place		Seattle Vocational Institute Map and directions

	Next Executive Board Meeting
Date		TBA
Place		TBA

	Volunteer Opportunities
Mentors for DH students Medical Teams International Union Gospel Mission Puget Sound Christian Clinic Johnny Johnson Memorial Dental Clinic

GSDHS is now on Facebook!

The Greater Seattle Dental Hygienists' Society has joined Facebook. We hope you will find this a useful way of getting news about our activities and communicating with us, too. Join the GSDHS on Facebook!

CE benefit for members

The greater Seattle Dental Hygienists' Society provides, as a member benefit, several free continuing education credits every year. CE courses are offered in conjunction with general meetings, volunteer events, and as a week-end CE course.

We hold our general meetings at the Good Shepherd Community Center at 4649 Sunnyside Avenue N. in Wallingford, centrally located for easy access off I-5 for all our members. Map and directions

Day and Time: We meet on the second Tuesday of the month. The business meeting starts at 7:00 and the CE runs 7:30 - 8:30 pm. Check the GSDHS calendar for exact dates.

Join us !

Do you administer block anesthesia?

Do you work while the boss is away?

We invite you to join the professional organization that worked to make these possible and continues to support and protect your profession.

Mentors Sought for February - November 2012

Who is this for? Second Year Students at Seattle Central and Shoreline Community College Dental Hygiene Programs.

Suggested Activities for MENTOR to do with assigned students:

Pre-Graduation-March through June: Invite student to component meetings
Call during March/April and encourage them through their WREB Boards
Befriend them. Lunch perhaps?
Invite to Symposium/HOD?
Post Graduation - July - December: Assist graduate with practice/job search questions and info
Invite student to component meetings
Assist/encourage grad with conversion to ADHA

You can do a lot or less . . . depending on your time constraints.

Please contact me to sign up for this opportunity to help or to ask further questions: Jane Moreno, 206.954.3573, moreno.jane@gmail.com

EWU Master of Science Degree in Dental Hygiene

Eastern Washington University offers a Master of Science Degree in Dental Hygiene (MSDH) program. This program is 100% web-based and requires two visits to the EWU Riverpoint Spokane campus.

The mission of the program is to educate and graduate dental hygienists who are technically, intellectually and ethically prepared for the upcoming challenges facing the dental profession. Once admitted students will be able to choose teaching, administration, or clinical research as their emphasis area for study. More information