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The Eastern Shore Children’s Regional Oral Health Consortium (CROC) is a federal Health Resources and Services Administration funded program of the Eastern Shore Health Education Center. The program works toward reducing, through education, the tooth decay in toddlers and very young children of the Eastern Shore.
Once the children’s primary health care personnel and caregivers understand that tooth decay is the most common chronic infection of childhood and the root cause is a specific type of bacteria like Strep Mutans that is able to change sugar and starch in the diet into powerful acids that soften tooth enamel, there is great opportunity to both prevent new cases of early childhood tooth decay, as well as, prevent recurring decay in children who have had decay treated in the past.
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Eastern Shore Dental Professionals seeking opportunities to volunteer providing: dental health month preventive presentations to prek,k & 1st graders, school dental screenings or clinical dental services in public health dental clinics please complete and return the following CROC Volunteer Corps Form.
CROC Rocks
For information regarding
upcoming CROC projects, contact:
Jeanie Holtz, R.D.H.
Eastern Shore
Area Health Education Center
P.O. Box 795
Cambridge, MD 21613
(410)221-2600, ext. 106
croc@esahec.org
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