Family Dentist Donates $10 To St. Jude Research Hospital For Every Kid's Dental Check-up

1st Family Dental, a dental practice with offices in Chicago, Elgin, Roselle, Arlington Heights, Aurora, and La Grange Park Illinois, as well as Tulsa Oklahoma, is donating $10 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for every child that comes in for their regular back-to-school dental check-up and cleaning. This initiative is applicable in all of its 11 family dental locations as part of their commitment to supporting the life-saving mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

1st Family Dental would like to continue this program not just for this year, but in the years to come. Vicky Khawaja, a representative of the office said, "We're so excited to be part of the life-saving mission of St. Jude by donating the much needed funds to help children and families. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since it opened more than 50 years ago."

The St. Jude Donation Program started on July 20 and will run until August 31, 2015. As part of their goal to donate $50,000 to the kids of St. Jude, the people at 1st Family Dental are ready to find a time to accommodate those with busy schedules through their adjusted evening and weekend hours. With the simple act of bringing one's child to the dental clinic, the $10 donation is a message of hope and inspiration to the kids at St. Jude through the cute smile-gram, and as a thank you, the donor will receive a bracelet. These smile-grams will then be sent to the kids at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, so the child's message of hope will go directly into the hands and heart of a kid who needs it.

Meanwhile, 1st Family Dental is also sponsoring a contest on Twitter at https://twitter.com/1stfd as well as on Instagram with cool weekly prizes for kids and families who want to share their good deed and challenge their friends and family to do the same. All they have to do is follow the dental office in their Twitter and Instagram accounts with the handle @1stFD for both.

About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for the most aggressive childhood cancers, and treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since we opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade. St. Jude freely shares the breakthroughs we make, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org or following St. Jude on facebook.com/stjude and twitter.com/stjude.