Free Dental Services Offered For Needy

600 dentists to feature in 24-hour oral care marathon

Six hundred dentists from across the country will feature in a 24-hour oral care marathon here next week to offer free dental checks to Mumbaikars and create one more reason for this financial and entertainment capital of India to be on the world map.

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Tele-Health Care Project to Provide Free Dental Care to Underserved Students

A new telemedicine project will provide free dental care to more than 400 foster-care students at 15 community locations across California. The project was created jointly by the California Dental Association (CDA) Foundation, University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry and the California HealthCare Foundation, with start-up funding from the Verizon Foundation.

The Virtual Dental Home project is designed to address the “access to care” crisis in California by connecting patients with critical dental services, according to an announcement about the program.

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Free dental clinic helps needy patients

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Some fear the dentist but it can be just as scary for those that need the care and can’t afford it. To meet the growing need in the community, a church and volunteers have opened a new free dental clinic in west Volusia County.

Good Samaritan Dental Clinic in Orange City opened two weeks ago and there’s already a waiting list.

Dentists, nurses, and staff donate 100% of their time to run the free clinic for a few hours three days a week.

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Vail dentist to offer free treatment

VAIL, Colorado — Dr. Paul Corcoran of Vail is offering free dental treatment to adults in need from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 10 as part of the Dentistry From the Heart program.

Dr. Corcoran and his team will treat the first 25 patients, or however many they can service by 1 p.m. Patients will be given the option to have a dental cleaning, one filling or an extraction.

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Volunteers fill the holes in dental care

When Treasury officials managed in 1994 to extract free dental care for children from the National Health Insurance Bill, they probably felt they were saving the public coffers from a major drain. But they didn’t consider the great loss to society.

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