Unlike previous dentists, Dr. Luedemann-Lazar didn’t suggest that Camryn would need to be sedated or immobilized. Instead, she suggested weekly visits to help her learn to be cooperative, step by step, with lots of breaks so she wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Bribery helped. If she sat calmly for 10 seconds, her reward was listening to a snippet of a Beyoncé song on her sister’s iPod.
This month, Camryn sat still in the chair, hands crossed on her lap, for no less than 25 minutes through an entire cleaning — her second ever — even as purple-gloved hands hovered near her face, holding a noisy tooth polisher.
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Healthy Smiles for Autism was created by the National Museum of Dentistry to empower parents of children with autism spectrum disorder to establish a healthy oral hygiene routine and prepare their children for a visit to the dentist.
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Gary Mihelish, local dentist and mental-health advocate, said a long-standing fallacy involving mental illness in children is that the parents are somehow to blame. “There’s nothing worse than it being inferred that the family’s at fault for mental illness,” Mihelish said. “Families are not the problem – they’re part of the solution.” The participation of loved ones in a child’s care is vital, Mihelish said at the groundbreaking for a housing facility for families at Shodair Children’s Hospital on Thursday.
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This is a guest post by Dr. Michele Savel. Dr. Savel is a pediatric dentist practicing on Long Island, New York who has specialty dental training to work with children who have special needs. Dr. Savel worked with Autism Speaks to help create the Dental Toolkit. To learn more about Dr. Savel please visit: www.kiddsmiles.com.
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Services provided to ages 18 and younger who do not have health insurance and do not have a physician or dentist. For appointments or more information, call 406-238-6008 or 866-822-1411.
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The regulations apply to the activities of more than 80,000 units of state and local government and more than seven million places of public accommodation, including stores, restaurants, shopping malls, libraries, museums, sporting arenas, movie theaters, doctors’ and dentists’ offices, hotels, jails and prisons, polling places, and emergency preparedness shelters.
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BILLINGS - Billings health professionals are giving back this coming holiday season with the annual Thanksgiving Give Back a Smile Project. Riverstone Health and 16 local dentists are teaming up to provide lower income households with free dental care on Friday, November 20. There are income guidelines to qualify.
Leaves of change: Blind, autistic woman rakes yards to help pay for dental work - 0 views
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Stone, 33, is blind and autistic, and in recent weeks has used leaf raking as a way to earn enough money to go somewhere she absolutely despises: the dentist.
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Thanks to the generosity of many, Heather Stone, a 33-year-old who is blind and has autism, may be able to see a dentist sooner than expected.
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The webinar is sponsored by The Arc for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Our last webinar participants included doctors, a dentist, therapists, students, Arc chapter employees, and state/local health department employees- so a pretty broad audience. The webinar will be live captioned.
If you are a student or know of any students who might be interested in presenting, please let us know. Each presentation is 15 minutes long (3 presenters) with five minutes of questions at the end.
Anyone interested in presenting needs to contact Alicia Dixon-Ibarra (dixona@onid.orst.edu), Kerri Vanderbom (mcmurtrk@onid.orst.edu), or Mara Nery (nerym@onid.orst.edu) with your presentation topic.