TOOTHFAIRY ISLAND

Toothfairy Island is dedicated to being a global leader in oral health and wellness strategies.Expanding on the myth of the toothfairy, our character based materials are child centered and educational - including games, puzzles, puppets, videos and so much more. Our fun and exciting materials create a pediatric wellness program that begins with oral health as the gateway to the body, and includes nutrition, prevention of germs transmission, safe play to prevent injuries, and true science for even the youngest child.

Dental decay is the most common childhood illness and most easily preventable. We have created an innovative, dynamic curriculum for a wide range of audiences, resulting in an immediate reduction in oral disease.

Explore, look around – we know that Toothfairy Island will help you give the children you love and care for a happy, healthy, beautiful smile!

TESTIMONIALS

"We appreciate the hard work from the National Children's Oral Health Foundation and look forward to developing our affiliation. The Toothfairy Island curriculum and other materials is helping improve children's oral health and making an impact in our community."
JUDITH R. CHIN, DDS, MS
Associate Professor, Indiana University School of Dentistry

"While money is good, our partnership with NCOHF is worth more than money. The quality of the education packets is worth so much; we have used them over and over. Your advice and product donations are valuable, as well. It has been a great experience working with you. Thanks."
CINDY GOODWIN, RN
Clinical Coordinator Community Outreach

"The Gary Center Dental Clinic Board of Directors and staff thank you for your contribution to our Program which, in turn, helps change lives for the better. Through your support, we can continue to offer dental services and education so vitally needed by children and adults. Your support is appreciated more than works can express, allowing us to continue helping families in need because every child deserves a healthy smile."
MARTHA LESTER, Executive Director
The Gary Center, La Habra, CA

TOOTHFAIRY ISLAND DIRECTORS

Cherilyn Sheets, DDS is an internationally recognized leader in esthetic restorative dentistry. As the visionary founder of The Children's Dental Center in Los Angeles, she is now a founding Director of The National Children’s Dental Foundation, which is dedicated to providing community-based prevention, education and treatment services. She has worked tirelessly to provide oral health services to underserved children and has raised national awareness of their critical needs. She is President of Toothfairy Island.

Jan Nelson, M.S.Ed. is the Creative Director of Toothfairy Island. She is a very talented and dedicated teacher who is the creative genius behind the development of the characters, story line, curriculum, and our peripherals.  She also ensures that the TFI program meets the learning objectives of both the National Board of Education and the Academy of General Dentistry.
Friends of the National Institute of Dental Craniofacial Research in December awarded Jan Nelson the 2006 Dentsply/Harold Slavkin Oral Health Science Education Award for her creative and innovative use of science curricula to teach oral health, which imparts excitement about oral health and oral health research.
You can contact Jan at nelsonj@toothfairyisland.com

THE TEAM

Marty Styskal, M.S.Ed. is a highly regarded teacher, who now works on the development of the TFI's innovative and engaging lesson plans and supports the development of our outcomes assessments.  A registered member of the Creek Nation, Marty shares our passion to make a measurable impact in pediatric oral health for underserved children.

Born in Michocan, Mexico, Mary Aparicio moved to the United States at the age of 6. After mastering the English language in one year, she began her career as a translator. First she helped her parents and then began working with non-English speaking students at the junior high and high school. She continues to act as a translator at Westminster High School. She has also worked as a health technician
in the Moreno Valley Unified School District where she became aware of the dental disease epidemic. Mary has never lost her desire to help non-English speaking students and their parents. Today she uses her skills as a translator to help bring the messages of Toothfairy Island to the Hispanic community worldwide.

Michael Anderson, Ph.D., M.P.H. is President of Health Media Lab where he has been Principal Investigator on several grants from the National Institutes of Health. A respected consultant on the application of multimedia technologies to health promotion and disease prevention, he has previously served as Youth Health Program Director at National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and as Research Program Director at the National Cancer Institute where he initiated several research and education programs, including studies in the areas of high-risk youth.

Soon after completing UCLA's Film Scoring program,
Ms. Pourkashef's music career took off by scoring two
short films followed by six full feature films in the period
of 3 years. Her credits also include over 50 commercials, movie trailors and children's music. Although she's mostly known as a dramatic composer of symphonic music, she enjoys her fairly new passion for song writing as well.
You can visit her at her website: www.shadipourkashef.com

National Dental Network brings quality training and instruction from the world leaders directly to the dental and medical professions in the most convenient and timely means possible, while reducing the costs associated with cutting-edge clinical and management continuing education.   NDN’s on-demand training, via DVD and the Internet, brings the curriculum right into home or office, effectively eliminating productivity losses and expenses typically incurred from seminar and tradeshow travel.  NDN is a proud sponsor of the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation and Toothfairy Island.  Due to NDN’s generous sharing of time and talent, oral health educational materials can be brought to the marketplace at an affordable price.

The Communications Group (TCG) is a strategic and creative communication solutions partner that utilizes the latest technology and multimedia applications to create cost-effective, results-oriented programs and events encompassing video productions for DVD or web based projects, as well as feature films, commercials and corporate marketing/communications applications.

TCG brings to its clients the unique combination of strong technological knowledge, innovative strategic thinking wrapped in a global, effective and highly creative package. TCG’s targeted strategic communication solutions uniquely marry compelling designs with content based multimedia productions, web tools and technically sound applications that also measure results to audience feedback conscientious organizations.