Grants Awarded for Dental Services for Low-Income Residents

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The Wisconsin Dental Association Foundation has awarded 20 grants to state dental health programs totalling $56,500 to bring oral health care to low-income residents.

The WDA Foundation was created as the charitable arm of the Wisconsin Dental Association in 1957.Since 2003, the West Allis-based Foundation has awarded $294,500 in the form of 84 oral health program grants and 102 scholarships to dental and dental hygiene students statewide.

A majority of the awards were given to dental programs in rural Wisconsin. The following grants were awarded to programs in southeastern Wisconsin:

• $5,000 to the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, to be used for patient laboratory costs.

• $5,000 to the Madre Angela Dental Clinic to buy new equipment for the outreach facility on Milwaukee’s south side. The largely-volunteer clinic has provided more than $6.8 million in free dental services to poor children and adults from Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine and Waukesha counties since February 2000.

• $6,000 to the Waukesha County Community Dental Clinic for preventive dental care and education to children.

By The Business Journal of Milwaukee