Community DentCare: Oral Health Care for the Underserved in Northern Manhattan
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needs communities in northern Manhattan, Washington Heights/Inwood and Harlem. Recognizing the community’s dire need for services, the Dental School reconsidered its mission to include community service as a major new responsibility and established the Community DentCare project to bring needed services into the community. Community DentCare was launched in 1995 to deal with anecdotal reports from school principals in Northern Manhattan that they had many children with toothaches in school and no place to send them for treatment. The Dental School conducted surveys and confirmed that there was a major problem of poor oral health in the school children with little to no access to care. The dental school at Columbia brought together a broad coalition to deal with the problem. This brief report on the past sixyears’ work provides a snapshot of Community DentCare and its accomplishments to date.
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