About twenty pre-schoolers from the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Children’s Centre in Wagga Wagga will get a first-hand dental experience during an excursion to the new CSU Dental and Oral Health Clinic on Thursday 15 July. The children, ranging in age from three to five, will be greeted by the second year Bachelor of Oral Health students, back from their three week semester break. The students have been treating patients, including primary and high school aged children, in the Clinic since April under the supervision of Clinic Director, Ms Helen Tane, lecturer Ms Simone Alexander and dentist Dr Kathleen Matthews. “By the age of three children should have a well-established daily dental routine supervised closely by their parents and should have also had several visits an oral health professional,” Ms Tane said. “Our oral health students will be able to show these young children around the Clinic, let them sit in the chairs and generally give them a positive memory of visiting a dental clinic.” Clinic appointments for members of the public, including school children, can be made by telephoning 1300 278 642.