A simple mission drives the charitable arm of Benco Dental: The Benco Family Foundation is dedicated to improving the dental health and quality of life in its local communities and around the world. Meredith Wall, Benco Family Foundation Administrator,explains the progress and forward motion... CONTINUE READING
Principal Melissa Myers introduced 280 second and third graders to a few visitors in the Heights Murray Elementary School cafeteria last Thursday, February 1. Cheers of excitement quieted to a dull roar as a petite woman clad in a white dental coat embroidered with an oversized carrot pocket... CONTINUE READING
Children with vision and hearing loss can now participate in the Lessons in a Lunch Box program with confidence. The Children’s Oral Health Institute in Owings Mills, Maryland announced yesterday that it will extend the Lessons in a Lunch Box program, an oral health literacy... CONTINUE READING
A campaign of support in response to Hurricane Harvey inspires the nation’s largest privately owned dental distributor to create ongoing channels of disaster recovery efforts for dental professionals. During the last days of August, Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and Louisiana. Benco Dental... CONTINUE READING
Thirty years ago Dr. Seth Wallerstein completed a dental residency at JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey and he believed so strongly in their mission that he's been supporting them with his talents ever since. [caption id="attachment_32021" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dr. Seth... CONTINUE READING
A 14-year awareness campaign that originated with the support of one area family received a boost of encouragement from a collaboration with another family committed to giving back to the communities it serves. Thirteen years ago, Michael Moran and Maura Staback approached the Northeast Regional... CONTINUE READING
School-based sealant programs, oral care product distributions, dental services for homeless children, these and other projects will receive a needed boost. Grants totalling $100,000 will support children across the U.S., courtesy of America's ToothFairy fundraising efforts, according to... CONTINUE READING
A. When it's decorated like Slinky Dog (shown above) as part of the “Acci-DENTAL Masterpiece” competition. Now through February 10-12, 2017 -– National Children’s Dental Health Month -- you can enter a juried art competition, the brainchild of Dr. William Demray, founder of... CONTINUE READING
Thirteen years ago, Michael Moran and Maura Staback, came to the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute to create an initiative in memory of their mother, Helen Phillips, who passed from colon cancer in the summer of 2002. Helen didn’t have a colonoscopy and her family felt strongly that if... CONTINUE READING
A 5th grader's reaction to a holiday surprise warms the hearts and inspires the spirit. Recently, a Special Education Teacher at Riverside Elementary East in Moosic, Pennsylvania, shared the profound effect small kindnesses, and even a simple toothbrush, can have on a child's life. In... CONTINUE READING