UTHSC Dental College will ‘Give Kids a Smile’
Give Kids a Smile Day is an annual volunteer event dedicated to giving children free dental services. In 2023, UTHSC College of Dentistry volunteers provided $29,365 worth of free dental care to 82 middle and high school students from Freedom Preparatory Academy in Memphis. (Courtesy University of Tennessee Health Science Center)
The event will provide free dental services to children who need them while giving dental students the opportunity to interact with patients and build clinical and interpersonal skills.
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UTHSC College of Dentistry Dental Health Freedom Prep Academy Delta Dental of TennesseeAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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