Free Dental Clinics Offer Free Care to Uninsured

Free Dental Work Reports — Free dental clinic offers free care. Free Dental Checkups For Musicians. Seniors Get Affordable and Free Dental Services. Free Dental Days Coming to Cedar Rapids This Fall. Blue Cross Foundation gives $610k to help poor get dental care.

Free dental clinic offers free care

Most people dread going to the dentist, but on Saturday people lined up for hours to receive free dental care from Stonehaven Dental in Lehi. Nearly 200 patients received a free cleaning, filling or extraction as part of Stonehaven’s annual Dentistry From the Heart program. One man, who had recently lost his job and dental insurance, slept out the night before to assure his wife a spot, said dentist Dave Latham. The 11 dentists ended up giving away about $45,000 of dental work, several dental hygiene students helped with cleanings and dozens of volunteers gave food and prizes.

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Free Dental Checkups For Musicians

These treatments will be provided free of charge to pre-screened, pre-approved applicants on a first-come-first-served basis. Those wishing to take advantage of this service must be able to document their work in the music industry for at least five years or have credited contribution to six commercially released recordings or videos (singles).

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Seniors Get Affordable and Free Dental Services

The director of community programs at University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry discusses the upcoming Senior Smiles Health and Wellness Fair in San Francisco.

Pacific is co-sponsoring this event with CPMC’s Community Health Resource Center, on May 15 from 9 a.m. to noon. Free screenings will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis for dental and denture screenings, blood glucose testing, bone density screenings and more.

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Free Dental Days Coming to Cedar Rapids This Fall

CEDAR RAPIDS — More than 1,500 Iowans will receive free dental care when the Iowa Mission of Mercy comes to Cedar Rapids next fall. Dates of the event will be announced this afternoon, May 6. This will be the first time the free care will be offered in Cedar Rapids.

The first Mission of Mercy in 2008 in Waterloo and last year’s event in Newton were met with an overwhelming response. Dentists and other professionals from across the state, along with volunteers, provided $1.4 million of free dental care to nearly 3,000 patients at those two sessions.

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Blue Cross Foundation gives $610k to help poor get dental care

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation has committed $610,000 to help provide dental care to uninsured and low income in North Carolina.

The three-year grant will help support a dental X-ray bus that will travel across the state providing dental X-rays. The bus will work with the North Carolina Dental Health Fund’s Missions of Mercy program, which provides free dental clinics throughout the state. This year, the program will provide more than $1.8 million worth of dental care to more than 6,000 North Carolinians. The Dental Health Fund is part of the North Carolina Dental Society.

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Free dental services

Dr. Paul and Paula Jacobs, of the Care Free Dental Clinic – a non-profit, volunteer-based clinic in Escanaba that serves uninsured Delta County residents – were among those to share with the commission the success the clinic has had in helping low-income residents.

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