{"id":5521,"date":"2023-03-07T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/boundless\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2023-03-10T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T00:47:08","slug":"dental-hygiene-alumna-makes-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/dental-hygiene-alumna-makes-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Dental Hygiene alumna makes a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-leadIn\">Yes, there is a tooth fairy in Flagstaff, and her name is Jenny Zamora-Garcia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/directory.nau.edu\/?person=jaz23\" target=\"_blank\">Zamora-Garcia<\/a> attended NAU\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/dental-hygiene\" target=\"_blank\">Dental Hygiene program<\/a> and is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Dental Hygiene. She gained her nickname by dressing as the tooth fairy while providing oral health education in schools. Her work expanding Mission of Mercy\u2019s annual free dentistry event to Flagstaff, helping in the Poore Clinic, and increasing awareness of the dental needs of low-income families are among the reasons she was awarded Flagstaff\u2019s Citizen of the Year in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/hof-jenny-zamora-garcia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAU dental hygiene alumna Jenny Zamora-Garcia provides dental care and education to the Flagstaff community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":570,"featured_media":5547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[144,163,543,542,544,545],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}