{"id":115545,"date":"2026-02-16T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115545\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:51:07","slug":"give-kids-a-smile-event-promotes-healthy-dental-habits-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115545\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Kids a Smile event promotes healthy dental habits (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student dental hygienists at Fortis Institute in Scranton performed dental exams Monday as part of Give Kids a Smile. The American Dental Association Foundation program provides dental services to children, including exams and X-rays, as well as hands-on demonstrations of how to brush and floss properly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Madelyn Murphy, 8, of Clarks Summit gets a dental exam...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-SMILE-0217-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Madelyn Murphy, 8, of Clarks Summit gets a dental exam by student dental hygienist Adrianna Harrison at  Fortis Institute in Scranton Monday, February 16, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Student dental hygienist John Quizhhpi gives a dental exam to...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-SMILE-0217-02.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-SMILE-0217-02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Student dental hygienist John Quizhhpi gives a dental exam to Paulina Suchecki, 8, of Dallas, during \u201cGive Kids a Smile\u201d day at  Fortis Institute in Scranton Monday, February 16, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>Madelyn Murphy, 8, of Clarks Summit gets a dental exam by student dental hygienist Adrianna Harrison at  Fortis Institute in Scranton Monday, February 16, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student dental hygienists at Fortis Institute in Scranton performed dental exams Monday as part of Give Kids a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-115545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}