Dental Clinics to Provide Free Dental Help to Needy

Free Dental Help Report — Smile, It’s Free! Stratford dentists offer free dental care. Mission of Mercy dental clinic planned. Dental college brightens kids’ smiles. Gables Woman’s Club funds free dental care.

Smile, It’s Free!

Triangle – RALEIGH, N.C. – Dr. Tarun Agarwal and Associates of Raleigh Dental Arts will host Raleigh’s first Giving Smiles Event, a day for adults without financial resources to receive free dental help. The event will take place in Raleigh from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 18 at Raleigh Dental Arts located at 8304 Creedmoor Road. Dr. Agarwal, along with a team of volunteer dentists, hygienists and assistants from across the country will treat as many adults as possible in this time period.

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Stratford dentists offer free dental care

STRATFORD — Root canals. Tooth extractions. Fillings. Dental work isn’t exactly pleasant — or cheap. And in this tumultuous economy, many families are reluctant to spend money on it. Stratford dentists Mark Samuels and Joseph Jarmon will provide free emergency dental treatment and cleanings to anyone who cannot otherwise afford it from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Feb. 18 at their dentistry office in Ryders Lane shopping plaza.

Samuels and Jarmon had long participated in Give Kids a Smile, a one-day program that provides children with free dental help through the Oral Health Bridgeport Initiative. But the program collapsed this year, Samuels said, due to a lack of funding.

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Mission of Mercy dental clinic planned

Community members are partnering to offer free dental help to Rockingham County residents in a “Mission of Mercy” clinic this July. Rev. Dr. Bill Duke, pastor of First Baptist Church and coordinator of the Mission of Mercy project, said the project is a response to the “overwhelming need” for free and low-cost dental care that he saw as a board member of the Free Clinic of Rockingham County.

The free clinic serves the “working poor,” he said, offering free dental help two evenings per week to Rockingham County residents working minimum wage jobs without health insurance. The demand for dental services is high and the waiting list for services is so extensive that the free clinic is no longer accepting new dental patients. The Mission of Mercy project will step in and fill the gaps by providing free dental help to those who need it the most.

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Dental college brightens kids’ smiles

The University of Nebraska Medical Center hosted Children’s Dental Day at the College of Dentistry on Feb. 4. More than 175 children received a free dental help at the annual event, which also included a carnival with games and dental information.

Over the past decade, the dental college has provided more than $2 million in dental work to more than 4,000 children in Nebraska.

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Gables Woman’s Club funds free dental care

Children in need of dental help who fall between the cracks in our healthcare system have long been cared for by the May Van Sickle Children’s Dental Clinic, owned and operated by the GFWC Coral Gables Woman’s Club. In fact, the Clinic is located adjacent to their clubhouse and provides more than $160,000 in free dental help for children throughout Miami-Dade County. To provide free services, the Club’s holds an annual fundraiser to supplement the gap in the Clinic’s operational funds.

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