You're never too young to learn about proper oral hygiene.

The University of Kentucky's College of Dentistry is partnering with Health First Bluegrass to bring a mobile Dennis clinic to Fayette County Elementary Schools.

The clinic made its first stop at Brackenridge Elementary School last Friday.

And we've gotten feedback through our dental services that this was such a needed partnership.

One of our chief dental officers was able to partner with uke and be able to partner with them to be able to provide longer term treatment to this kind of more aggressive treatment therapies that patients might not be able to access or be able to kind of go to an appointment with.

Our plan is that every Friday we're going to be in one of the schools, the middle schools, to attend to kindergarten school and look at the children and see if they have any needs that might we might help solve.

We're going to we're bringing our dental students down here, so they're going to get an opportunity to have better experience and see some of the children and hopefully help some of the children with their dental needs.

I think it's really important that we're in schools because that's where kids are, right?

So we know that parents come to the schools, they drop them off.

They're here.

Their teachers are here.

We know a little bit about their history.

And so we can, when we connect, connect them to services through our medical clinic, but then can reach dental services or those kind of more unique services.

It really allows us an opportunity to provide not just got care and that one moment that will provide that lifelong care if they need return visits or follow up to wraparound that student.

Sometimes the kids don't have transportation, the families are busy, they're working.

They can't get them to the to the dentist.

So here's an opportunity to come there and take that element out of the picture and get an opportunity to see as many as we can.

I think we're going to see about 40 today.

We've got three dental chairs in a van, so go.

Most people have a little bit of a fear of dentists.

And what we'll find out is if we get to them young and talk to them early on, that fear is and isn't set in so well.

So because it's not a dent, it's not a pain issue, they have to go to somebody for and they just go to get looked at.

And we're very good nowadays in dentistry to take the pain away so we don't have to worry about, even when we're doing dental procedures, usually it's pretty comfortable.

So it's a great opportunity for them to meet and see what a dentist does and how they can help.

And and, and it changes.

You can change your life in so many ways sometimes.

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This week is fall break, but next Friday, the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry mobile Clinic will be at William Wells Brown Elementary School.