Free Dental Work for Kids Granted

Free treatment program targets dental care crisis

With many Australians facing the silent epidemic of poor oral health, a new program known as Healthy Smiles for Life is providing free dental work for people in need across the country.

Healthy Smiles for Life is a community support project sponsored by Colgate and organised in partnership with The Salvation Army, Barnardos, The Benevolent Society, and Youth Off The Streets.

The free dental work program matches volunteer dentists who donate their time and their skills free of charge with the support of Colgate to clients nominated by the partner charities. More than 220 have volunteered so far to help Australians in need.

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“Tooth taxi” brings free dental work to kids

Winnebagos don’t normally have dental chairs and x-ray machines, but then again, most dental offices aren’t particularly roadworthy.

For three days this week, an RV complete with all sorts of dental equipment was sitting behind Dry Hollow Elementary and offered free dental work to kids with all types of dental needs. In all, 187 kids had their smiles brightened over the course of three days.

The Tooth Taxi, as it’s called, is plastered all around the outside with the faces of smiling kids with straight, white teeth. Inside the Tooth Taxi, it’s just like a dentist’s office, with all the necessities, two dental chairs, instrument panels, x-rays, developers and a barrage of drill bits, burrs and tips that set your neck hair straight up when they get to spinning.

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