The DuPage County Health Department, along with Delta Dental and funding support from the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation, is presenting an important educational event aimed at oral health professionals called “Ready, Set, Smile.”

 The “Ready, Set, Smile” event is an oral health initiative designed to develop and expand the dental community’s capacity to treat children and with special healthcare needs. This event will focus on educating oral health professionals about strategies, best practices and interventions for treating children with special health care needs. Speakers will include a developmental pediatrician, behavioral therapist and oral health experts.

Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Registration: 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Instruction: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Medinah Shriners: 550 Shriners Dr., Addison, IL 60101

 The event is free to oral health professionals. Those who attend this event will receive four continuing education credits provided by the Delta Dental Foundation.

For more information on this event or to register for this event, visit, http://www.dupagehealth.org/dental/education/readysetsmile