STORY: EVACUEE DENTAL CARE (There is a brief anchor tag)

SCRIPT # 619 SHOOT: 9/7/05

AIRDATE: Monday, Sept. 12, 2005

Daybreak and Midday

DHC MASTER #21 Timecode: 32:01 In Dallas alone, dentists have found

More than 15-hundred serious

dental cases among the evacuee

population.

North Texas dentists are volunteering

their services to treat these new

patients.

Dr. Linda Niessen has the story in

today’s segment of Dental Health

sovt: 1:40 Check.

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YOLANDA (“It’s just been horrible.”)

SUPER: New Orleans :08-13

Sept. 1 The pain of a toothache only adds to Yolanda Carter’s misery. The memories of the New Orleans flood and aftermath still haunt her.

SUPER: Yolanda Carter (“It was fighting, shootings, stabbings,

Tooth Ache Patient :13-17 because everyone wanted to get out.”)

YOLAND AT BAYLOR Baylor College of Dentistry is providing

emergency treatment for evacuees. Yolanda

SUPER: Dallas :20-25 and her niece are two of the first patients.

SUPER: Tamika Lewis :28-33 (“The pain is so horrible. I’m like where this

Tooth Ache Patient pain coming from. So it’s awful.”)

DR. ROBERT SMITH (“The problems we’re seeing are acute pain.”)

TWO-SHOT Dr. Robert Smith of Garland is one

of the volunteers from the Dallas County

Dental Society.

SUPER: Dr. Robert Smith :42-47 (“We’re seeing things like lost dentures

Dentist in floods, your normal tooth ache, teeth

that have gotten broken in the storm. Things

like that.”)

SUPER: Jane Evans :51-56 (“You’re not healthy without good oral

Dallas County Dental Society health. And it will affect you in many

other ways.”)

BARBARA ARMSTRONG Barbara Armstrong lost her dentures

but a new set will be ready soon.

SUPER: Barbara Armstrong (“And I lost everything. So they brought

Denture Patient 1:02-1:06 me here to Dallas for safety. And I thank

Dallas for everything.”)

DR. KENT SMITH (“There are so many ways we can help.”)

TWO-SHOT Dr. Kent Smith of Irving has volunteered

the services of his entire staff.

SUPER: Dr. Kent Smith (“Just something little, something that we

Dentist :1:16-1:21 can do that takes very little time can make

such a profound effect on somebody’s health.”)

(STAND-UP CLOSE)

SUPER: Dr. Linda Niessen Lack of access to needed dental care existed

Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas before the evacuees arrived. Now

1:24-1:29 their needs, and the needs of those who

live here have made this task an even

greater challenge for the North Texas

Dental community. For Baylor College

Of Dentistry, Texas A&M Health Science

Center, I’m Dr. Linda Niessen, Channel 8

News.

(ANCHOR TAG)

Dentists who wish to volunteer to help

the evacuees should call the Dallas

County Dental Society.