Commissioners present check, proclaim Children’s Dental Health Month

 

Chester County Commissioner Terence Farrell (from left) joins Chester County Community Dental’s Tamara Fox and Regina Horton Lewis as well as Commissioners Kathi Cozzone and Ryan Costello for a check presentation during Children’s Dental Health Month.

Proclaiming February as Children’s Dental Health Month, the Chester County Commissioners presented Chester County Community Dental with a check for $25,000 during their work session on Tuesday, part of the county’s annual appropriations to county nonprofits.

The commissioners’ proclamation stated that cavities are the number one chronic childhood disease and are 100 percent preventable. Chester County Community Dental provides comprehensive general dentistry services and dental health education to approximately 3,000 low-income children in the county each year.  The dental organization also partners with the Chester County Health Department and the county’s school districts to provide dental sealants to students throughout the year, a county news release said.

 Regina Horton Lewis, executive director of Community Dental, and Tamara Fox, director of development and marketing for the organization, accepted the proclamation and the check, thanking the commissioners for the contribution. It will help to continue many of the dental programs available to Chester County citizens, they said.