Give Kids a Smile Day is a day of free dental cleanings, exams, and x-rays for children that do not have dental insurance. Dentists offices throughout the community will be participating during the months of January and February. For a complete list please contact Arlene at the United Way offices 947-3200 x 208.
Friday, February 5th from 9am until 4pm
Garfield Dental Group, Dr. Ronald C. Chao
2815 N. Garfield, Traverse City, MI 49686
Please call 231-947-4380 for an appointment.
1 comment:
The problem is that dentists neglect children the rest of the 364 days of the year.
over 80% of dentists refuse Medicaid patients and 130 million Americans lack dental insurance. Untreated tooth decay is a growing US problem. US children have died from the consequences of untreated tooth decay.
Yes, dentists can't treat people for free all the time. But organized dentistry blocks any other viable groups from taking care of the people who dentists won't - keeping dental care unavailable to too many Americans and keeping dentistry a very lucrative monopoly
Meanwhile dentists choose to treat water supplies instead of low-income people. But science shows that fluoridation has failed to reduce tooth decay and exposes people unnecessarily to fluoride's adverse effects See http://www.FluorideAction.Net/health
We need to stop fluoridation and use the millions of dollars saved to actually treat dentist neglected children.
Give Kids A Smile Day is just another PR stunt to make even more money for dentists and the corporations that benefit from tooth decay.
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