As soon as fall rolls round, the whole lot will get a little busier and with the sector reputedly shifting 100 miles in line with minute, it’s essential to decelerate and take time to lend a hand the ones in want. That’s why each October, DentaQuest workers take time to provide again to their native communities and make a distinction. Whilst DentaQuest’s Venture Month has taken quite a lot of bureaucracy over the last few years, this annual custom used to be reinforced by way of the participation of our colleagues at Solar Existence U.S.

Mary Ann Kozlowski, supervisor of Company Giving and Partnership at DentaQuest, shared, “As a countrywide dental insurance coverage corporate, our groups reside in lots of states. However all through Venture Month we’re all united in a commonplace undertaking to serve others and support oral well being. Every certainly one of us resides that undertaking as DentaQuest ambassadors if it is by way of handing over house care provides to organizations whose participants want a little bit elevate or volunteering on a neighborhood undertaking.”

Final month, we introduced Venture Month 2022 with just about 50% of DentaQuest workers and over 325 Solar Existence workers collaborating in Venture Month actions. Staff took time to collect oral well being kits — stuffed with toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss — for his or her local people nonprofits. Because of their efforts, over 70,000 oral well being kits had been donated to 39 nonprofit organizations throughout 17 states. At DentaQuest, we all know that oral and total well being are attached and to have a wholesome frame, you want a wholesome mouth. Those oral well being kits supply folks with the fabrics they wish to prioritize their oral well being.

In Louisiana, Dr. Damien Cuffie — who serves in Louisiana’s Nationwide Guard — served his neighborhood by way of giving out toothbrush packets all through a up to date talk over with with the Louisiana Clinical Detachment at Camp Beauregard.

“Once I visited Camp Beauregard, a large number of infantrymen could not inform me the remaining time that they had a correct cleansing and stated they just pass to the dentist when their tooth harm,” stated Dr. Cuffie. “Squaddies from rural spaces had been lacking numerous tooth. They wait till occasions like this sanatorium to get remedy. That’s why I attempt to teach [soldiers] at the significance of oral well being whilst doing examinations.”

Our undertaking to support the oral well being of all is on the middle of the whole lot we do. That’s why each July, we honor unusual people who champion equitable get admission to to oral well being care via our Well being Fairness Heroes program. And that’s why this Venture Month DentaQuest made donations in honor of our workers’ dedication to our undertaking to Smiles for Good fortune and Houston Dental Equality Community — two of the organizations identified by way of the 2022 Well being Fairness Hero program.

In contrast to earlier years, DentaQuest’s Venture Month efforts prolonged additional than the limits of native communities. In overdue September, Storm Ian devastated a lot of Florida’s beach and impacted tens of millions of Floridians. DentaQuest temporarily jumped into motion and donated $500,000 to the Florida Crisis Fund, which assists Florida’s communities as they reply to and recuperate all through occasions of crisis, to toughen Storm Ian aid efforts.

And, as a part of this dedication, DentaQuest matched contributions made by way of workers to nonprofits offering support to Storm Ian sufferers. Staff joined forces and donated a complete of $5,680 which we matched for a grand general of $11,360 contributed to aid efforts.

“It’s extremely heartwarming to look our DentaQuest neighborhood come in combination to make a distinction — regardless of large or small — in folks’s lives,” stated Mary Ann. “Once a year we’re ready to perform extra and supply extra toughen for the ones in want.”