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ORANGE COUNTY. - 1979-8o BUDGET <br /> C°nartrent: Health Program: Dental i <br /> Actual Estimated Proposed <br /> 1979-80 m <br /> • z <br /> Dental Assistant 1 °v <br /> Dental Assistant Supervisor 1 ~" <br /> 1 M <br /> Billing Clerk <br /> 1 <br /> This pro•;ram will be funded by the Robert Wood John- <br /> Ix <br /> son Foundation and fees charged. North Carolina Memorial <br /> 'iospital ani the UNC School of Dentistry will provide addi- <br /> tional financial support by provision of dentists, dental <br /> residents, dental students, and dental hygienist. <br /> The program will consist of both a primary care ser- <br /> vice and a preventative service. <br /> Primary care will be provided in a five chair dental <br /> clinic in the Health Department in Carrboro and a four <br /> chair clinic in the Orange County Social Services Building <br /> Health Department office in Hillsborough. Memorial and <br /> the Dental School will staff these clinics with attending <br /> dentists, dental residents and provide professional guid- <br /> ance and quality/quantity assurance. Medically co-npromised <br /> patients will be served at the companion clinic at Memorial. <br /> Preventative care will be given all clinic patients. <br /> Tho maior thrust of this effort, however, will be in the <br /> public schools. All children grades K - 2 will be exposea <br /> to a major educational effort with demonstrations, brush- <br /> ing and flossing techniques taught, nutrition counseling <br /> I and guidance, fluoridation programs, screenin; for dental <br /> problems with referral to appropriate other care source Actual Budgeted Estimated PROPOSED) Approved; <br /> or to our clinics and follow-up into the homes by nurses. <br /> The K - 2 intensive pro-,ran will be followed at each.grade SUKKARY 1979-30 <br /> level with appropriate follow-up preventative/educational b <br /> efforts. The aim is to have every child in grades K - 12 <br /> in all public schools having been intensively exposed to <br /> good dental hygiene and in a maintenance pattern by the 's <br /> end of six years. <br /> O <br /> Given the unavoidable lateness in starting this pro- <br /> ; <br /> ject, the.budget will balance by only generating $4,190 in $135 267 <br /> fee revenue through 6/30/80, Fees earned beyond this would TOTAL. �( <br /> be held to the credit of this project as per contractual Ue drtment: Health - Dental <br /> I °C <br />