- Watch Your Mouth Massachusetts: The Watch Your Mouth Coalition Is Working In Massachusetts, New Hampshire And Maine To Make Children's Oral Health A Priority. Objectives of the Watch Your Mouth Coalition are to Educate the public that tooth decay is the most common childhood disease that can cause diminished school performance and poor overall health. WYM advocates for wider access to preventive services, such as dental sealants and fluoride, and regular dental exams for all children.
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Voices from the Community
The Watch Your Mouth campaign commends our coalition partners and friends across Massachusetts are talking about the importance of oral health. Just click on these links to read the many voices in the Commonwealth who are speaking up for children's oral health.
October 2009
- Promoting Oral Health in Worcester (A Healthy Blog)
- Dental Cuts Lead to Death in Michigan (A Healthy Blog)
September 2009
- Promote heart health by guarding the gateway to the body (Revere Journal) (Heart Day LTE)
- Oral Health in the News (A Healthy Blog)
- Lost in the Gap between Medical and Dental Care (A Healthy Blog)
June 2009
- Business has Role to Play in Kids' Oral Health (A Healthy Blog)
- Oral Health Everywhere (A Healthy Blog)
- Senator Harriette Chandler: True Health Care Must Include Dental Care (A Healthy Blog)
May 2009
- Celebrate national women's health week by speaking up for oral health (Andover Townsman)
April 2009
- Oral Cancer Awareness Week
- Oral Health Study Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
- Speak up for children's oral health during oral cancer awareness week (Woburn Daily Times Chronicle)
- Lowell Speaks Up Against Big Tobacco (Lowell Sun)
- Tax Smokeless Tobacco ( Martha's Vineyard Times)
- National Public Health Week is April 6-12 (A Healthy Blog)
- 10,000 More Families in Springfield Now Have Access to Dental Care (A Healthy Blog)
- Dental Coverage Critical To Decreasing ER Visits (A Healthy Blog)
- Speak Up for Children's Oral Health During Oral Cancer Awareness Week (Woburn Daily Times Chronicle)
March 2009
- Tobacco Free Massachusetts Kick Butts! (A Healthy Blog, Health Care For All)
- Oral Health and Homeless Kids (A Healthy Blog, Health Care For All)
- What's in Store Oral Health (A Healthy Blog, Health Care For All)
- February is Children's Dental Health Month (Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics)
- New York Times: “Short of Dentists, Maine Adds Teeth to Doctors’ Training” (A Healthy Blog, Health Care For All)
February 2009
- Local Dentist Honored Statewide (The Walpole Times)
- We Need to Take a Bite out of Dental Decay (The Patriot Ledger)
- Health Care Advocates Fight to preserve funding (New England Cable News)
- Officials Eye ÔDisturbing Trend' in Children's Oral Health (Belmont Citizen Herald)
- Focus Needed on Oral Health (Worcester Telegram and Gazette)
- More Cape dental care needed despite improvements (Cape Cod Times)
- Heroes Saluted as Massachusetts Brushes up for Children's Dental Health Month (Public News Service)
- Report Cites need for more accessible dental care (The Barnstable Register)
- Dental Disease is Chronic on Cape Cod (The Barnstable Enterprise, Page 9)
- Massachusetts Dental Society Call to Action (A Healthy Blog)
- Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket Counties come together to address the region's most common chronic disease: dental decay (A Healthy Blog)
January 2009
- February is Children's Dental Health Month (The Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, Page 4)
- Gator Grins: A Local Model For Massachusetts Health Care (The Country Journal)
- Watch Your Mouth Celebrates Dr. Joel Pearlman, Our 2009 Community Hero (A Healthy Blog)
- Governor Signs Oral Health Bill (A Healthy Blog)
- Governor has opportunity to make oral health progress (A Healthy Blog)
- Low Masshealth Dental rates just increase other costs and Hurt Health (A Healthy Blog)
- February is Children's Dental Health Month (The Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Page 4)
- Dental Health Month is February (Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, Page 6)
