West Des Moines Dentistry Practice Buying Back Kids' Halloween Candy for Overseas Troops

Plaza Dental Group of West Des Moines is joining dentists across the country in the Halloween Candy Buyback program to help meet its goal of delivering 125 tons of candy to military service personnel deployed overseas during the holiday season.

Here’s How the Program Works

• Participating dentists "buy" back kids' Halloween candy at a scheduled event
• "Buy" with cash, coupons, toothbrushes, creative exchanges - They can partner with local businesses to give away coupons for food, services, goods, etc.  They can give away the Hygiene Kits, they can set up an Opportunity Prize--each kid gets a ticket per pound of candy for an opportunity drawing to win special prizes, etc.
• Dentists send the candy to Operation Gratitude or other Military support groups
• Operation Gratitude sends the candy  to U.S. Military deployed in harm's way
• Call the Plaza Dental at (515) 224-5999 before driving over with your Halloween candy as many have concluded their buyback event and are no longer accepting candy.

Operation Gratitude will be sending 60,000 care packages and will need tons of candy, literally, to fill them.