{"id":683,"date":"2016-02-08T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/?p=683"},"modified":"2016-02-18T03:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T09:17:36","slug":"more-than-100-local-kids-receive-free-dental-care-at-annual-give-a-kid-a-smile-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/08\/more-than-100-local-kids-receive-free-dental-care-at-annual-give-a-kid-a-smile-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Students Join With Professionals to Provide Free Care for More Than 100 Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northwest Technical College&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/dental-assisting\/\">Dental Assisting program<\/a> partnered with dentists from Bemidji and the surrounding area to provide free dental care for more than 110 children at its annual Give Kids a Smile event, Feb. 5. More than a half-dozen dentists, along with dental assistants, hygienists and a dental therapist provided their services during the day. NTC students joined these working professionals to get live clinical experience working with children. The group provi<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ded exams, fluoride treatments, sealants, x-rays and measures to preserve dental health and prevent the spread of disease. Everyone working at this event volunteered his or her time to participate. Students in NTC&rsquo;s child care programs also helped by providing activities and care services for young families while children attended their dental appointments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">NTC partnered with the Beltrami and Cass county Bi-County Community Action Program and other organizations to provide Give Kids a Smile. The event was&nbsp;also supported by a $500 grant from the Minnesota Dental Foundation and by supply donations from Henry Schein, a global provider of medical and dental supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwest Technical College&#8217;s Dental Assisting program partnered with dentists from Bemidji and the surrounding area to provide free dental care for more than 110 children at its annual Give Kids a Smile event, Feb. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-myntc","category-top-story","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}