Free Dental Help Offered For Low-Income

Free Dental Help Report — Minnesotan program to offer free dental help to low-income children. Free dental help available Sunday in Loma Linda. Dentists will be help for “Give Kids a Smile” campaign. Free dental help to children of low-income families. Group to offer free dental help in Oklahoma City.

Minnesotan program to offer free dental help to low-income children

Visiting the dentist is not always an option for some low-income and uninsured families. To address this problem, thousands of Minnesotan dentists will offer up two days of dental help to children through the “Give Kids a Smile” program early this February, according to Public News Service. The help will be completely free of charge.

Children benefit greatly from having healthy teeth and an attractive smile. Many child experts note that the quality of one’s teeth can affect social fluidity, interpersonal skills and speech development, Public News Service reports.

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Free dental help available Sunday in Loma Linda

LOMA LINDA – Free dental help will be made available Sunday by the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry. Registration will be from 6:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. for the 21st Clinic With A Heart.

A limited number of patients will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Procedures provided will be either a cleaning, a filling or an extraction. No crowns, root canals or dentures will be performed. And children under 18 won’t be treated without an accompanying parent or legal guardian.

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Dentists will be help for “Give Kids a Smile” campaign

The national campaign gives free dental help to uninsured children ages 1-12 on Feb. 4. Chico dentist Erik Roos will be providing his Cohasset Road office for the event.

Last year, more than 46,500 dentists and others helped provide services to 478,000 children, according to local contact Kimberly Lange. Parents of uninsured children can contact 893-4044 for information about the one-day program which requires preregistration.

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Free dental help to children of low-income families

Give Kids A Smile® event to provide free, desperately-needed dental services to local qualifying children from low-income families. This event is part of the American Dental Association’s Give Kids A Smile Program. Last year, more than 46,000 dental team members nationwide participated in Give Kids A Smile.

Friday, February 4, 2011 * 8am-4pm., 7113 Three Chopt Road Suite 200, Richmond VA. 23226 (Triangle Park). Give Kids A Smile is held annually to: provide free dental help to local, qualifying children from low-income families raise awareness of the epidemic of untreated dental disease occurring here and across the country and raise awareness of the need to build local public and private partnerships to increase access to oral health care to solve this crisis.

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Group to offer free dental help in Oklahoma City

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – The Oklahoma Dental Association’s president says the group’s members will participate in a 2-day free dental help in downtown Oklahoma City next month. Association President Tamara Berg said Tuesday that what is dubbed as the Oklahoma Mission of Mercy is expected to attract 2,000 patients, who will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. The event is set for Feb. 4-5 at the Cox Convention Center.

Berg says a similar event last year in Tulsa drew about 1,800 patients. This year’s event is being funded by a $150,000 grant from the Delta Dental of Oklahoma Oral Health Foundation, which also helped sponsor the 2010 event. Organizers say that during the past eight years, almost 70,000 patients across the U.S. have received free dental help through the Mission of Mercy program.

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