A Sealant Saturday is also scheduled for February 4 from 9am to 4pm in the Lancaster area, at the Lancaster County Career and Technology Center in Willow Street.
Parents and legal guardians must make an appointment for either location by contacting the Dental Hygiene Clinic at (717) 780-2441 or 1-800-222-4222, ext. 2441. Children will be seen by appointment only.
Second-year dental hygiene students, together with volunteer dentists and licensed dental hygienists, some who are HACC alumni, will perform a painless, routine oral exam before placing a thin coating on the chewing surfaces of the patient's back teeth. Sealants are a hard coating that help protect teeth from decay.
Sealant Saturday is a statewide service sponsored by the Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists' Association. The HACC Dental Hygiene Clinic is host of the Harrisburg and Gettysburg events. Sealant material is supplied by Dentsply Professional Division in York. Sealant Saturday is an effort to provide oral health services to children who are underinsured or who otherwise cannot afford regular dental visits.
HACC's dental hygiene students, as student members of the Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists' Association, strive to improve the public's health, advance the art and science of dental hygiene by increasing awareness, and ensure access to cost-effective quality oral health care.