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Oral Health Initiatives

If you are a dentist or can help provide us with supplies, please fill out the application form here.

Dental Day Recap

• Community Alliance collaborated with Michigan dentists and hygienists to provide free dental cleanings, x-rays, and exams for our adult customers with developmental disabilities who lost their Medicaid Dental coverage in July of 2009.

• The goal was to create a replicable model that could help both individuals in Washtenaw County and eventually across the state.

• When the Medicaid benefit was cut, most of our customers could not afford dental care, so they went without.

• Three dentists and 11 dental hygienists volunteered from all over the state. Dental professionals traveled from as far as Traverse City and Grand Rapids to help our clients!

• Led by Dr. Elisa Ghezzi, the dental team had a cumulative total of 323 years of dental practice experience!

• The dental office space and x-ray equipment were donated by Dr. John Wehr at Pure Dentistry and the majority of supplies were donated by more than a dozen dental practices and suppliers from across the state.

• Twenty-four clients received necessary dental treatment that would have cost them in excess of $7,500.

• Potential serious oral health issues were identified and appropriate next steps are being identified by our volunteer dentist and our staff.

• The Dental Day has received both local and statewide media coverage. The Ann Arbor Observer and Michigan Radio have reported about Community Alliance's efforts.

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