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Happy Teeth Outreach nominated for diversity award

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A former University of Leeds dentistry student's project to help improve the dental health of children at special schools across Leeds has been shortlisted for a National Diversity Award.

Community dentist Linzi-Maybin's Happy Teeth Outreach is shortlisted in the Community Organisation Award For Disability section of the awards.

Happy Teeth Outreach was set up in Oct 2019 and has previously won the BSPD outstanding innovation award in May 2020.

Linzi said she started the Happy Teeth Outreach project last October because she is passionate about caring for patients who cannot always communicate that they have a dental problem

It has now been shortlisted out of 64,000 UK nominations and votes for the National Diversity Award here's a link: https://nationaldiversityawards.co.uk/64000-nominations-votes-the-national-diversity-awards-announce-2020-shortlist/ . The National Diversity Awards is an awards ceremony which honours positive role models, and community organisations across several different strands within the equality and diversity sector.

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