LOS ANGELES — Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will receive more than 50,000 toothbrushes through an oral health initiative called Operation Tooth Fairy, district officials announced June 9.
LAUSD partnered with the Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health to raise oral health awareness and distribute the toothbrushes while schools remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The L.A. Trust, founded in 1991, has long worked to improve student oral health, and the organization has coordinated free kindergarten oral health assessments in Los Angeles Unified schools since 2013.
LAUSD board members thanked The L.A. Trust for promoting oral health, especially since schools have been closed since mid-March due to the pandemic and no reopening dates have been set.
“I salute the L.A. Trust and their continued commitment to promoting and educating our children on the importance of oral health,” school board member George J. McKenna III said.