Dental health stressed at church festival

Her own teeth have caused her nothing but aches, but Elizabeth Ross hopes her six children will be luckier.

Several of them were screened Saturday during the Full Gospel Emancipation Life Center's second Family Fun Festival, held on church grounds at 8232 Redmiles Lane in Odenton.

Ms. Ross said she's told her children, who range in age from 4 to 16, to avoid junk food and to hit the bottom and top teeth equally when brushing.

Told by dentist Dr. Karen Tillman-McCombs that two of her boys may have cavities and that 4-year-old Bria has a "dark spot," Ms. Ross, of Baltimore, plans to herd them all into a dentist.

"Oh,...