pennylane1284
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 Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:41 am Post subject: Free dental care for uninsured |
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I found this article and I thought I'd share it with you. It's an example of how we shouldn't give up hope that there are still a lot of humanitarians out there:
| Quote: | Dental clinic serves uninsured in hard times
Thursday, August 19, 2010
By Lindsay Carroll, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wilma Holdridge hadn't been to a dentist in about eight years. Her husband had been laid off from his previous two jobs. But when the pain from a decaying tooth became too much to bear, she applied for services at a free clinic.
She's one of many Americans without dental insurance -- for every person 19 and older without health insurance, there are three more without dental, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some estimates put the figure as high as 100 million.
About 1,000 people are on the waiting list for dental services at the Community Health Clinic of Butler County, which started its dental program in November after struggling for funding. Since then, it has treated almost 250 patients as of the end of June, said Cecelia Buechele Foster, the clinic's executive director. June was the last date for which figures were available.
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You can read the rest of the story here.
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