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PHOTO: BWIn celebration of Dental Health Awareness Month, workers from Drs. Ellis, Green, and Green brought The Tooth Fairy, Happy Tooth, and Sad Tooth to Blaney Elementary recently to check the teeth of all 592 students. Each child got a brief checkup and a goody bag with a pencil and a new toothbrush to take home. Here Matthew Smerdell from Fran Mauldin’s 4-year-old child development class has his teeth checked by Chuquita Whatley while the Tooth Fairy (Donna Lashbrook) looks on. SPECIAL TO THE STATE