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Delta Dental of Kansas has announced a grant of $8,700 to the Dental Assistant program at Salina Area Technical College.
Brooke Horner, Administrator of the Dental Assistant program, said the grant funds will be used to buy:
Phosphor plates, used for taking dental x-rays
Three large light boxes, for viewing x-rays
A Prophy Jet, which cleans teeth using sodium bicarbonate propelled by compressed air
An oxygen system for patients
New plastic holders for taking x-rays
Three pediatric dental mannequins
Three pediatric typodonts (hinged models of the human mouth)
Miscellaneous dental instruments
A human skull
Horner said some of the equipment, such as ...