"Tacoma Dental Society", now known as the Pierce County Dental Society was organized in 1887.
Currently the Society has over 411 members. Of those members, over 331 are practicing and 78 are retired or have a permanent waiver. Approximately 80% of
the dentists in Pierce County are members of the Dental Society.
The Society is a non-profit agency. It is dedicated to furthering education, mutual support and better communication with the general public for the purpose of
their better dental health.
To provide information on current dental issues, act as a liaison to the outside community, and serve as a support to its member dentists, the Society has a
Central Office. It has one full-time and one part-time staff persons. The Central Office provides no-cost referral and mediation services for the public. Mediation is
done for member dentists only.
PCDS and PCDF Give 500 Children Dental Education Books and Goody Bags
During the month of February, which is Dental Health Month, the Society organizes a Children's Dental Health Day. It is
open to the public. The day provides such events as no cost dental screenings, games contests, face painting, goodie
bags and more. Attendance has reached over 1,000 in past years.
The 2009 Children's Dental Health Day was held at the Puyallup, South Hill Mall on Saturday,
February 7th, 2009.
Click Here for Information about the Free, Fun Event!
An extra special thanks to Dr. Dearl Olsen, the chair of Dental Health Day!
A special thanks to the following Pierce County Dental Society member dentists who
were involved in the 2009 Children's Dental Health Day:
Drs.Ted Baer, Jamie Brooks, Gary Christman, Gary Grimm, Jordan Harris, Donald Jordan, Ji Kim-Aun
Silvia La Rosa, John Lo, Michelle Wolfrom, Kevin Xu, Al Bird, Gary Grimm, Stuart Hersey, Phil Kiss,
Randy Nartea, Scott Olsen, Sammy Pak, Chuck Samuels,Helena Skountrianos, Dan Smith, Glorianne
Walker
Many thanks to the following agencies who made the 2009 Dental Health Day a success:
Bates Dental Program, Community Health Care Dental Clinic,
Good Samaritan Celebrate Seniority, Lindquist Clinic for Children,
Clover Park Dental Program, Ft Lewis/McChord Air Force Dental
Program, Metropolitan Development Council Homeless Service,
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Pierce College Dental
Hygiene Clinic, Give Kids a Smile and Pierce County Dentists Care,
Pierce County Oral Health Coalition, Puyallup Tribal Authority, Puget
Sound ECEAP, Sea-Mar Dental Clinic, Willamette Dental, and Within
Reach
Thank you to Ashley Anderson for being a gracious Tooth Fairy.To Clover Park and Bates
Technical College Dental Assistant Students for helping with dental screenings, and to
Pierce CollegeDental Hygiene Students for doing fluoride varnish applications. A special thanks
to the Balloon Man for putting smiles on many children's faces. The Society would also like to the thank Britanny B., Rose Kiser, Angela Fintoff, and Michelle
Glaser for stuffing 1,000 dental health education goodie bags that were given to children on dental health day and handed out during local dental health
classroom presentations.
Our hats are off to the following sponsors who helped make the day possible:
Burkhart, Pierce County Dental Foundation, Valley Bank,Washington Dental Service Foundation
and 3M ESPE. Thank you for your generous donations.
Additional thanks to the following dentists who made donations to support the
program: Drs. Katayoun Adab, David Andrew, Mark Arnold, Ted Baer, Al Bird, Zach Bird, George
Brain, Vicki Breaker, Jamie Brooks. Stephen Brooks, Jeffrey Brus, Duke Bui, Jeffrey Camm,
Eugene Choy, Nicholas DiRe, Michael Gage, George Ghosn, David Hannula, Timothy Hardtke,
Jordan Harris, Brian Kerr, Ronald Kuritani, Jon Kvinsland, Silvia La Rosa, Steven Marinkovich,
Duane Mayeda,Thomas McAvoy, Bradley McPhee, Randy Nartea, Dearl Olsen, Sammy Pak,
Nancy Rothbauer, Gary Shaw, Matthew Stadler, Steven Styskal, Greg Sutherland, Allan Tronset,
Steven Urback, Dale Vandershelden, Keiko Wada, and Robert Webster
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