{"id":9154,"date":"2018-05-21T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/gc-america-supports-initiative-to-improve-oral-health-among-children-in-chicago-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T04:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T04:00:31","slug":"gc-america-supports-initiative-to-improve-oral-health-among-children-in-chicago-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/gc-america-supports-initiative-to-improve-oral-health-among-children-in-chicago-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Gc america supports initiative to improve oral health among children in chicago and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Charlotte, NC, May 8, 2018) In Chicago 63% of third graders have cavities and more than half go untreated. Thanks to a collaboration between GC America and America \u2019s ToothFairy: National Children\u2019s Health Foundation (NCOHF), caregivers will be provided with the basic tools for home oral care and education. GC America\u2019s $  100,000 philanthropic investment as Title Sponsor for the 2018 Chicago Smiles Initiative will help support operational expenses an d efforts to overcome significant barriers faced by under-served families in Chicago and surrounding areas with an emphasis on the education of grandparents, parents and other adult caregivers. Under-served families face tremendous obstacles in accessing dental care, which include low oral health literacy, financial hardship, lack of tra&#8230;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/medworm.com\/535634621\/gc-america-supports-initiative-to-improve-oral-health-among-children-in-chicago-and-beyond\/\">MedWorm: Dentistry News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Charlotte, NC, May 8, 2018) In Chicago 63% of third graders have cavities and more than half go untreated. Thanks to a collaboration between GC America and America \u2019s ToothFairy: National Children\u2019s Health Foundation (NCOHF), caregivers will be provided with the basic tools for home oral care and education. GC America\u2019s $ 100,000 philanthropic investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[4165,609,683,2117,21,8,592,1201,7,4111],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-america","tag-among","tag-beyond","tag-chicago","tag-children","tag-health","tag-improve","tag-initiative","tag-oral","tag-supports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-2nE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}