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Update Your Mailing List on MCNA's Provider Portal
Update Your Mailing List on MCNA's Provider Portal

MCNA regularly sends newsletters like this one as well as other bulletins and important announcements via email to participating provider offices throughout our network. To ensure that you and the other members of your team don't miss out, please remember to periodically update the mailing list for your office through your ...

Communication
Update Your Mailing List on MCNA's Provider Portal

MCNA regularly sends newsletters like this one as well as other bulletins and important announcements via email to participating provider offices throughout our network. To ensure that you and the other members of your team don't miss out, please remember to periodically update the mailing list for your office through your ...

Thinking About Extending Your Office Hours? Let Us Know!
Thinking About Extending Your Office Hours? Let Us Know!

MCNA invites your practice to join us in our effort to increase access to care by offering extended office hours. By providing access to care before 8 a.m., after 5 p.m. and on weekends parents who cannot easily take time off from work will be able to bring children to receive ...

Your Practice
Thinking About Extending Your Office Hours? Let Us Know!

MCNA invites your practice to join us in our effort to increase access to care by offering extended office hours. By providing access to care before 8 a.m., after 5 p.m. and on weekends parents who cannot easily take time off from work will be able to bring children to receive ...

Focus on Preventive Services: Sealants
Focus on Preventive Services: Sealants

Preventive dental services support healthy growth and development by helping children avoid the onset of caries and other oral disease. Catching oral disease early, or preventing it altogether, can go a long way to help your patients avoid more costly and possibly painful restorative treatment later in life. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), tooth decay affects about one out of five children aged 5 - 11 years. Additionally, children from low-income families are twice as likely (25%) to have cavities as compared with children from higher-income households (11%).

Dental sealants are a quick, easy, and painless preventive service that effectively maintains the oral health of a child. Correctly applied, sealants can prevent 80% of cavities in molar teeth, where 9 out of 10 cavities occur. The optimal time to apply sealants is ...

Quality Improvement
Focus on Preventive Services: Sealants

Preventive dental services support healthy growth and development by helping children avoid the onset of caries and other oral disease. Catching oral disease early, or preventing it altogether, can go a long way to help your patients avoid more costly and possibly painful restorative treatment later in life. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), tooth decay affects about one out of five children aged 5 - 11 years. Additionally, children from low-income families are twice as likely (25%) to have cavities as compared with children from higher-income households (11%).

Dental sealants are a quick, easy, and painless preventive service that effectively maintains the oral health of a child. Correctly applied, sealants can prevent 80% of cavities in molar teeth, where 9 out of 10 cavities occur. The optimal time to apply sealants is ...

MCNA's Kids Zone Has You Covered!
MCNA's Kids Zone Has You Covered!

Check out our online Kids Zone for oral health education flyers created by MCNA just for kids! Each flyer explains a different topic related to oral health, from bruxism to the importance of getting a professional dental cleaning. All flyers are available for download so you can print copies to give to patients and parents.

We also have interactive games and cool ...

Children's Corner
MCNA's Kids Zone Has You Covered!

Check out our online Kids Zone for oral health education flyers created by MCNA just for kids! Each flyer explains a different topic related to oral health, from bruxism to the importance of getting a professional dental cleaning. All flyers are available for download so you can print copies to give to patients and parents.

We also have interactive games and cool ...

National Handwashing Awareness Week
National Handwashing Awareness Week

National Handwashing Awareness Week is celebrated each year during the first week of December to draw people's attention to the importance of good hand hygiene. It is a great time to remind your staff and the patients that visit your office that a quick rinse is not enough to ...

Upcoming Events
National Handwashing Awareness Week

National Handwashing Awareness Week is celebrated each year during the first week of December to draw people's attention to the importance of good hand hygiene. It is a great time to remind your staff and the patients that visit your office that a quick rinse is not enough to ...

National Resolution Planning Day - December 30
National Resolution Planning Day - December 30

National Resolution Planning Day encourages us to get a head start on setting goals for 2022! Statistics show that one in three people give up on their New Year's resolutions in the first month, and only 10% of people are successful at keeping their resolutions throughout the year. For a better chance ...

Upcoming Events
National Resolution Planning Day - December 30

National Resolution Planning Day encourages us to get a head start on setting goals for 2022! Statistics show that one in three people give up on their New Year's resolutions in the first month, and only 10% of people are successful at keeping their resolutions throughout the year. For a better chance ...