New Free Dental Clinic and Proposal to Outlaw School-Based Mobile Dental Clinics
May 6th, 2009
New free dental clinic will help patients with problem teeth
LEWISTON - The Snake River Community Clinic debuted it’s new dental clinic Monday.
“Our new office was funded by Inland Northwest Community Foundation for $34,000,” said Dental Hygienist Lillian Bowen. “Charlotte Ashe, of the Snake River Clinic, and I wrote off for a grant and it got awarded. So we are very happy about that and also a lot of our equipment here was also donated in addition to what we could buy with the grant money.”
The clinic is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays and they only do extractions.
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Feds oppose limits to school-based mobile dental clinics
BATON ROUGE — A proposal to outlaw school-based mobile dental clinics drew opposition Monday from the Federal Trade Commission, which calls the bill an anti-competitive measure that would reduce access to care for poor children.
House Bill 687 by Rep. Kevin Pearson, R-Slidell, which is scheduled for its first hearing Tuesday morning in the House Health and Welfare Committee, is aimed at curbing the growth of mobile dental clinics that provide services to children, most of whom are covered by Medicaid.
Supporters of the bill, which is being pushed by the Louisiana Dental Association, say dental care is best delivered in a “fixed, permanent” location such as a dentist’s office, and that the growing trend of mobile clinics imperils the “lifelong relationship” between families and their dentist.
Office visits “ensure that what we have available to the under-served is full, comprehensive and quality care dentistry,” said Ward Blackwell, executive director of the dental association.
But opponents, including the Louisiana Primary Care Association and the state chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, say that it would take away one of the few opportunities poor children enrolled in Medicaid have to receive dental care.
More: http://www.nola.com/
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