Carestream Dental Provides Equipment to Clinic Delivering Care to Underserved Populations

Posted: September 21, 2021
Edited by Dentaltown staff

ATLANTA—Carestream Dental has partnered with Local Start Dental, a new clinic in North Carolina that specializes in meeting the needs of the area’s most vulnerable populations—veterans, the elderly and low-income adults—by providing free or discounted care.
 
Co-founded by Doug Brown, former president of Affordable Care LLC, and Dr. Scott De Rossi, former Dean of UNC’s Adams School of Dentistry, and led by its present interim dean, Dr. Julie Byerley, the clinic provides care for underserved populations by connecting them with dental students from the Adams School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“Our name stands for: Life-Changing Oral Care and Learning, which describes the benefits that this practice will provide to North Carolina,” Brown said “Untreated dental issues create significant health, societal and economic challenges for thousands of individuals that are missing teeth. We are grateful for partners like Carestream Dental whose generosity is helping us to provide services that will be life-changing for many in our community."
 
What started as an idea in 2018 has come to fruition as a 5,000 square foot facility that saw its grand opening in late summer 2021. Carestream Dental donated a CS 9600 CBCT system, a CS 3700 intraoral scanner and CS ScanFlow software, RVG 6200 sensors and a CS 2400P portable generator.
 
“Part of Carestream Dental’s mission is ‘Changing Lives,’ so Local Start Dental’s mission really resonated with us,” Jeremy Thomas, general manager of the Americas region, Carestream Dental, said. “As they so rightly point out, society can be prejudiced against edentulous adults, so replacing a tooth isn’t just about giving someone their smile back—it’s giving them their lives back. And if it also means dental students are getting the experience they need, then all the better!”  

Local Start Dental features ten operatories, four staffed by faculty-supervised students and six overseen by local volunteer licensed dentists. The clinic is predicted to assist 3,000 patients annually, while 160 third- and fourth-year dental students will gain valuable clinical experience.

For more information, visit localstartdental.org
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