{"id":22170,"date":"2024-05-06T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/dental-hygiene-volunteers-for-special-olympics-special-smiles\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:47:30","slug":"dental-hygiene-volunteers-for-special-olympics-special-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/dental-hygiene-volunteers-for-special-olympics-special-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Hygiene Volunteers for Special Olympics &#8211; Special Smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faculty and students from the of Dental Hygiene department participated in the Spring Games for Special Olympics held on May 5, 2024 at Shenendehowa High School.\u00a0 The event hosted more than 370 athletes from around the state competing in swimming, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics. Athletes also had the opportunity to be screened for health and flexibility through Fun Fitness Volunteers, as well as participate in Special Smiles Screenings for dental assessments.\u00a0 Each athlete who participated was given an intraoral screening and received oral self care and a protective mouth guard for their competition.\u00a0 Students provided the dental screenings under the supervision or faculty and supporting dentists who volunteered from the third and fourth district Dental Societies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163858 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_IMG_0857-1-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"dental hygiene department volunteers talk at the event\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163860 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_IMG_0855-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"dental hygiene participants at a table \" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163862 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_IMG_0850-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"students giving assessment \" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163863 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_IMG_0849-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"students doing dental assessment\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163864 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_IMG_0848-177x300.jpg\" alt=\"students doing dental assessment\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163865 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SO-May-5-2024-Shen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"students and faculty at the event\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 06 May 2024 11:47:30 +0000 by\u00a0j.mcminn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Faculty and students from the of Dental Hygiene department participated in the Spring Games for Special Olympics held on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}