National Smile Month Sponsors:

JUNE IS NATIONAL SMILE MONTH

How to Participate

Program partners from Tallahassee, Florida to Seattle, Washington are issuing their own press releases and holding National Smile Month events to promote effective oral health policies and encourage Americans to “Brush for Health!”  Oral Health America will be featuring your stories and sharing your materials on line throughout the month of June.  Please let us know what you are planning, send photos, and share your ideas with others across the country by emailing Kristen White, ltapp@oralhealthamerica.org.

Participation in National Smile Month can include sharing the campaign messages with family and friends, or challenging your children, students, or patients to a two-minute “brushoff” to see who comes the closest in brushing their teeth for two minutes without a timer! Enter the Healthy Smile Contest, and share your photos and stories at. 

Significant national attention to healthcare reform this month means that there has never been a more critical time to contact your elected officials to ask them to support oral health and oral healthcare.  Send a letter or email, or make a phone call today to your state and national representatives, and to President Obama, stating the importance of oral health’s inclusion in healthcare reform.

What You Can Do

• Place a National Smile Month button on your website!  Email ltapp@oralhealthamerica.org to receive a free button and show your support.

• Download a template press release and letter to the editor that you can copy and edit, and send to your local media.  Download the template release here! Click here for a sample release shared by Kids Smiles of Philadelphia.

• Write or call your elected officials today! Contact information is available at http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml.

• Hold a National Smile Month event or activity.  Download the National Smile Month Handbook for some good ideas on what to do, www.oralhealthamerica.org/NSMsmallHandbook.pdf, or call Oral Health America at (312) 836-9900 for a free copy via post.

• Enter the Healthy Smile Contest, and encourage your friend, relatives, patients and students to show off their healthy smiles as well!

• Visit the U.K. National Smile Month website, hosted by the International Dental Health Foundation, at www.nationalsmileweek.org. 

• The National Museum of Dentistry offers a fun and educational online tool in Spanish to teach kids about brushing and flossing, avoiding tobacco, and eating healthy.  Visit www.MouthPower.org.

• Play Dental Distress online!

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