Better Teeth And Smiles For Kids And Youth For Free
January 15th, 2009
Free dental care for kids and youth report.
SPRINGDALE : Mobile tooth unit gets district’s OK
The mobile unit, or “tooth truck,” will park in front of schools for two weeks at a time, providing free dental services to uninsured second-grade children.
The global committee of Ronald McDonald House Charities will meet this month to approve the plan, which already has been approved by the charity’s Arkansas-Oklahoma branch.
If approved, an endowment formed by the charity and several local businesses will pay for an $800,000 truck outfitted with two dental chairs and an X-ray machine. An additional $500,000 of annual funding will pay salaries of a dentist, hygienists and a program administrator.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital will coordinate the program, and the only costs to the district will be electricity to power the equipment.
The on-site dentist will identify and treat children with chronic dental problems.
More: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/249274/
New dental initiative gives care to those 18-24 who have ‘aged out’ of state system
DETROIT — Betty Kinchen, like so many thousands of Michigan residents, has no health or dental insurance. Kinchen, a 20-year-old Wayne resident, has just “aged out” of Michigan’s foster care system and lost her insurance. And she’s in need of some dental care right now.
But a new initiative through Wayne County Community College District and the Michigan Department of Human Services that will allow people 18-24 in foster care or who have aged out to get free dental care.
As part of the program, students in WCCCD’s dental program will provide Kinchen and the others with free dental cleaning, X-rays and other dental care.
More: http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090115/LIFESTYLE03/901150420
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