McMillen Health’s Brush program equips families and educators with easy-to-understand oral health tools, transforming access in underserved communities.

This story is part of a series on the challenges and solutions related to oral health in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. It is made possible with funding support from the Delta Dental Foundation.

When dentists in Fort Wayne, Indiana, realized preschoolers weren’t learning the basics of oral health, they turned to a small nonprofit known for tackling big challenges.

What they got was Brush, a simple but powerful program that is transforming oral health education across 39 states.

“We didn’t set out to build a national program,” says Nicole Fairchild, CEO of McMillen Health. “We just responded to a local need and applied what we knew best—how to create health education that people actually understand and use.”

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