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Welcome to the fundraising raffle to help support the 2024 Sweet 16 cycle of the Lessons in a Lunch Box: Healthy Teeth Essentials & Facts About Snacks® program. Prizes include a Henry Schein Hygiene Bundle, an Air Techniques ScanX Swift Digital Radiography System, and much more!
Go to cohi.betterworld.org/ to learn more and win big!
Dr. Winifred J. Booker, CEO & Director of Development for COHI, tells children about the generous sponsors.
Prevention that Empowers!
The Children’s Oral Health Institute (COHI) is a 501(c)3 organization created to combat dental neglect and oral abuse among children. Our goal is to improve the attitudes and behavior of children and families on a variety of oral health issues through early health promotion and disease prevention education.
Our Purpose Is To…
- Improve preventive dental education outreach and public awareness
- Conduct research projects and clinical studies in pediatric dentistry
- Provide various, independent studies regarding dental treatment for children
- Serve as a national children’s oral health information center
- Encourage, support and evaluate innovative ideas, products and programs in oral health services delivery to children. Learn More about COHI »
New COHI Pilot Programs
A Proposed Maryland Medicaid Health Care Campaign
By: Dr. Winifred J. Booker
Special Article | October 2023
Download the "One Baby" Article (pdf)»
July 13, 2022
Contributors: Amr M. Moursi, DDS, PhD | Bianca Dearing, DDS, MPhil, PhD |
Winifred J. Booker, DDS, FAAPD
Download the "Back-to-School" Article (pdf) »
Download the PregNancy Brochure »
The Children's Oral Health Institute is pleased to offer to families everywhere our newly developed PregNancy™ Together health education brochure. Through the dedicated commitment of the contributing health experts and the generous sponsorship of Crest Oral B both the comprehensive online brochure and the synopsized print version brochure are made available for your reading and learning pleasure. We hope you enjoy this essential content delivered through this exclusively designed product to help pregnant parents appreciate the impact their own health can have on the growth and development of their unborn baby. The topics discussed can have a profound effect on the developing teeth of a fetus. We hope you will be enticed to learn more. Be sure to ask your dentist and physician(s) questions about the interprofessional information shared in this PregNancy™ Together brochure, including:
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- PregNancy, Healthy Eating & Baby’s Developing Teeth
- YourPregNancy & Dental Health Maintenance
- PregNancy, Dental Health, Diabetes, & Pre-eclampsia
- PregNancy, Oral Health & Human Papilloma Virus
- PregNancy & Periodontal Health
- PregNancy & Postpartum Depression
- Medications, Breastfeeding &PregNancy
- PregNancy & Foot and Ankle Health
- PregNancy, Dental Health and Male Fertility
- Post PregNancy & Your Infants New Teeth
- Oral Body Art &PregNancy
PregNancy is hopeful many more women will be encouraged to pursue this invaluable “teeth to toes” health care information during the journey to motherhood.
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OHE Certified Press Release »
9219 Oral Health Education-signed cover letter »
9219 Oral Health Summary Report »
OHE Fiscal & Policy Note »
Bill Signing Group Photo »
 Welcome to The Children’s Oral Health Institute (COHI)
K–12 Educators’ Repository.
Through this collaboration between The Children’s Oral Health Institute and dentalcare.com, teachers can retrieve oral health education lessons, materials, programs and videos for primary and secondary education.
Continuing Education Credit Now Available
Oral health professionals can now earn continuing education credit for taking the online course entitled, Improving Oral Health Literacy: Teaching Primary School Students through the Lessons in a Lunch Box Program. Visit dentalcare.com and type in CE 456.
 Creating Access to Oral Health Care
DTA (Dental Trade Alliance)
Foundation Forum — April 15, 2013
 Code Red: The Oral Health Crisis In Your Classroom©
Empowering the Teacher to Teach Oral Health Education: A Curriculum Resource Reference
The Children’s Oral Health Institute has coordinated this oral health literacy movement to sensitize teachers to the impact that poor dental health can have on classroom performance. Our nonprofit organization will work together with dentists, dental students, physicians, school nurses, corporate supporters, legislative leaders, government, parents and educators to help advance this undertaking. This handbook contains many valuable curriculum resources that can help to elevate the wellbeing of entire families. The commitment of teachers to incorporate oral health education into their lesson plans is of fundamental importance to the concerted efforts to reduce and eventually end the oral health crisis in classrooms and throughout society.
 Code Red: The Oral Health Crisis In Your Classroom© aims to achieve the following objectives by empowering primary and secondary school educators to:
 Appreciate the essential need to establish oral health education as part of the elementary, middle and high school curriculum.
Integrate oral health lessons with teaching mathematics, reading, music, science, history and comprehensive health education.
Access materials and provide literature about proper dental hygiene and oral disease prevention.
Have an increased awareness of the devastating effects that tooth decay has on a student’s ability to learn.
Identify physical, emotional and behavioral signs and symptoms of dental disease when a child is in the classroom.
 Click here to print “Code Red Registration Form” »
Click here to view “Code Red” as an online book »
Click here to download a pdf of “Code Red” »
After completing the Code Red online workshop and implementing the resource reference booklet into your classroom, please take the Teacher Evaluation Survey and email it to info@mycohi.org.
 A Clean Toothbrush May Help Protect You From The Flu©
“Project Clean Toothbrush: Important Tips To Help Prevent The Spread of Flu Germs”
The profession of dental medicine is uniquely positioned to help mitigate the impact of the H1N1 Swine Flu. Tiny droplets of saliva and mucus transport the virus through the air from the mouth. In an effort to help prevent the spread of these germs that contribute to the onset of illnesses, The Children’s Oral Health Institute launched an offensive against the common cold, seasonal viruses and now the H1N1 Swine Flu. Collaboration between the nonprofit organization and the doctors of dental medicine at Valley Dental Pediatrics produced an infection control initiative,Project Clean Toothbrush: Important Tips to Help Prevent the Spread of Flu Germs. The Maryland Dental Society and the Maryland State Dental Association will work closely together to help advance the project throughout the state. The initiative is designed as a printable poster, complete with illustrations that offer ways to clean, decontaminate, disinfect and sanitize your toothbrush.
Guess Who’s in the News?
The Academy of General Dentistry Foundation (AGDF) and The Children’s Oral Health Institute (COHI) have solidified plans to work together to expand the Lessons In A Lunch Box: Healthy Teeth Essentials & Facts About Snacks program throughout the United States. Read More »
Local Dentists, Dental Students and The Links, Inc. pose in front of the close to
2000 lunch boxes just packaged on Saturday, January 9th, 2010.
The “carrot case” team of students from the BCDS working in a synchronized assembly line.
Group photo with future dentists from University of Maryland Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and Drs. Booker, Dozier, and Grant at Waverly Elementary School.
Baltimore, MD. February 27, 2008. 432 lunch boxes were distributed.
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