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Chandler dentist to buy back Halloween candy
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Chandler dentist Kelly Wettstein is not anti-Halloween, insists his wife, Lynnette Wettstein.
When it comes to eating Halloween candy, he's just pro-moderation and anti-tooth-decay, she said.
The Wettsteins, who own Impressions Dental on the northwest corner of Cooper and Riggs roads, plan to hold their second annual Halloween Candy Buy Back event on Nov. 2, the Monday after the holiday. The family dental clinic is offering to buy Halloween candy from trick-or-treaters at $1 a pound.
The idea, said Lynnette Wettstein, who has three children, is to let them eat a few pieces of candy they like, then get rid of the rest, instead of munching on leftover candy in the days and weeks after Halloween. All of that extra candy is bad for dental and general health, she said.
"There's just so much excess," Wettstein said. "You feel that constant pressure. The kids want more and more of it."
The candy collected will be donated to Operation Gratitude, an organization that provides holiday baskets to troops serving in Iraq. The clinic also will donate 50 cents to local schools per every dollar paid out, she said. The candy must be unopened, she said.
Last year, during the inaugural event, Impressions Dental collected 375 pounds of Halloween candy, Wettstein said.
"It was quite successful," she said. "We had a line out our door."
More people are expected to participate this year, she said. The candy buy-back is being done in conjunction with about 1,300 other dentists across the nation, she said.
On Halloween, it would be preferable if people handed out sugarless candy or small toys, Wettstein said.
"Those are really more fun for the kids, I think," she said. "We give them toothbrushes."
Besides, she said, it's the trick-or-treating, not the candy eating, that's memorable.
"The fun is in the tradition of it," Wettstein said.
If You Go
What: Halloween Candy Buy Back
When: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 2
Where: Impressions Dental, 5970 S. Cooper Road, Suite 1, Chandler
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