Smile program bend oregon

Tucker is the program director for our Share a Smile Initiative. This program focused on treating patients in rural communities with an emphasis on oral surgery and community healthcare. He has been practicing dentistry for over five years and spends 10 days per year serving on foreign humanitarian dental trips.

Click photos to see a full-size version. Right click and save image to download. Skip to main content. Toggle menu Go to search page. Search Field. September 23, I found the police department here is just as corrupt and racist as any other police department. So I had to weigh my options.

Do I want to go back to a big city and risk my children growing up that way, or do I stick it out and risk them getting called racial epithets and [experiencing] hard times in school. And I'm still processing that. RW: I heard a really good phrase for it today.

Racism with a smile. It's not heartfelt Black people can feel when you're not being level with us SW: How do you feel like the response has been here in Bend over the last few weeks to your assembly, and what are your plans for the future? RW: I'll speak for the assembly My inbox is full of nothing but supporters, people offering us things. I'm going to make sure the assembly handles [racist incidents in Bend from now on]. We have good white people on our team. We will not have another suicide from racist bullying like what happened with Deshaun Adderley.

This is not going to happen in Deschutes County. SW: You have strong opinions about public education and what children are learning in schools about Black people. When my kids go to school and they see people that look like them in their school books in and they're in chains, and they're picking cotton and they're beaten and they can't vote and they have no rights How's that going to make them feel in school?

We have a better history than that. Also, remember: your smile impacts you and my smile impacts me. We feel our own smiles. When we smile, our brain releases tiny molecules called neuropeptides that help fight off stress. Other neurotransmitters come into play. Some trigger mild pain relievers while others function as antidepressants. A simple smile activates all this stuff in our brains. That is cool—and our smiles even activate others to smile. That is some big power, and big power is always a big responsibility.

Think about it. Could you bring more smiles into the world? Frowns are important. They are often telling us we need to communicate something that has been rattling around in our brain. There is something important but difficult that needs to be shared. Most of us could use help in this sensitive area.

Communicating our hurts effectively is one of the most beneficial life skills we can learn. Smile when we wake up in the morning. Smile when we go to sleep at night. Smile at the sky. Smile at the trees. Smile at the rain, the moon, the stars, your dinner There is a time and a place for our non-smiling emotions—but let's keep the ratio leaning toward the smile side.

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