A free mobile dental care program has been announced by the City of Toronto for residents of its long-term care homes, which includes more than 2,600 people. The program will involve Toronto Public Health’s oral health providers utilizing mobile dental vans to provide essential dental services such as preventive care, restorative dentistry and dentures. This … Read more
Benco Dental and Matthews Specialty Vehicles are merging their 75+ years of combined experience to offer customers one expert resource for custom, turnkey mobile dental coaches that are crafted without compromise. Benco was the first company of its kind to offer practice space planning starting in 1978. Matthews Specialty Vehicles has been building America’s premier … Read more
The Support Network for Indigenous Women and Women of Colour (SNIWWOC), in collaboration with Khalsa Aid Canada and Wheely Clean, is breaking down financial barriers to oral healthcare. Always focussed on holistic healthcare program delivery for racialized women, SNIWWOC strives to meet the needs of their community in many ways, from free mental health counseling, … Read more
Grant extends reach of UB dental program to Erie County’s underserved, including older adults and people with disabilities The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine has received a $780,000 grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to expand its successful S-Miles to Go dental program through the addition of a second, drivable mobile dental … Read more
The province is providing more than $800,000 to help low-income seniors in remote communities get better dental care. “Getting a second mobile dental office will be fantastic. We can cover more geography with it. We can see more people. Being able to able to enhance our clinics in Pickle Lake, Ignace and Dryden with better … Read more
You might not know his name, but Brisbane dentist Malcolm Campbell is a hero to hundreds of children in East Timor. Once a year, with the help of other volunteers, he loads up a truck with a mobile dental clinic and travels through the troubled country delivering dental treatment to orphaned and impoverished children. He’s … Read more