{"id":23476,"date":"2025-02-03T12:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/special-olympics-winter-classic-dental-screenings\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:58:31","slug":"special-olympics-winter-classic-dental-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/special-olympics-winter-classic-dental-screenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Olympics Winter Classic &#8211; Dental Screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning, West Mountain played host to the Special Olympics Winter Classic.\u00a0 This annual event had 150 athletes from across the state competing in alpine and cross-country skiing, as well as snowboarding and snowshoeing.\u00a0 Special Smiles gives the opportunity for HVCC faculty and Dental Hygiene students and alumni the chance to screen athletes for any dental issues and help to ensure that athletes and their families are connected with dental providers in their home area.\u00a0 Athletes are also educated in oral self-care and nutrition based on their oral health.\u00a0 Oral self-care goody bags were distributed to each athlete after their screenings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173498 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SO-Banner-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"banner that says Special Olympics Special Smiles\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173500 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SO-Bags-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"bags on a table that say Special Olympics Special Smiles\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173496 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SO-Screen-3-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"people in a tent get dental screenings\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173499 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SO-Screen-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"people in a tent get dental screenings\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173495 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/So-Screen-1-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"people in a tent get dental screenings\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173497 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/SO-Screen-4-450x228.jpg\" alt=\"HVCC students and faculty from the dental hygiene program pose by a table\" width=\"450\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:58:31 +0000 by\u00a0j.mcminn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Saturday morning, West Mountain played host to the Special Olympics Winter Classic.\u00a0 This annual event had 150 athletes from&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-23476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476","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=23476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}