Letter to Crest

So for my initiating action project I wrote a letter to Crest requesting dental supplies and asking them for help...here it is.

ATTN: Crest Oral Health and Healthy Smiles Program

To Whom It May Concern:

Did you know that flossing adds 6.4 years to your life? That is one of the questions we will randomly ask students while crossing our stand, with your help. This is Kayvan Shahrzad, a freshman at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, concerned about the health of his schoolmates. Although this may be my first semester here, it has struck me with great force the oblivious nature of the students here about their oral health. I just want to make it known across campus of several basic needs to maintain oral health. I am writing this letter in order to ask your conglomerate to sponsor a school wide oral health ‘renovation.’ I want to be the head of a program targeted at students to focus on their dental and oral health – I want to provide them with information, products, and let them go with a smile. Through the information I will spread awareness about general dental health, oral diseases, oral cancer, and how to maintain daily health. I as well as a panel of dentists that will compile the information going to be provided in a packet and with anticipation, they will give it a seal of approval. The products, which I am asking for help providing for, will inspire students to brush, floss, and maintain their dental health while at school. An extra or even new toothbrush will help dental health immediately since most of the toothbrushes students use are overused anyway. I will put together a group of students who will take turns to attend the “Crest Oral Health” stand in the middle of the most crowded and most walked through area of Virginia Tech, the “drillfield.” At the stand we will confront students with questions about oral health and ask them to take a survey, if they are still interested at that point we will provide more information about dental health and then give them a free sample toothbrush including toothpaste and floss. With the sample toothbrush and other tools students will be given the chance to at least give their oral health a thought. As long as students even give their teeth a thought, then what we did was successful. So please, I am asking your company to provide my cause atleast 2,000 toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, mini floss packets, and Crest brochures to be handed out to students. That is a good portion of the population of the school (about 10%). Your company would be responsible for helping more than 2,000 students focus more on their oral health and keep our school healthy.

Kayvan Shahrzad
Virginia Tech 2012