Dental Community Outreach
Help us make preventative and urgent dental care accessible and available to the most underserved populations in Houston and East Texas.
Nearly 5 million Texans—most of whom work full- or part-time—have no health or dental coverage, putting oral care out of financial reach. Statewide shortages of dental professionals compound this problem, especially for those living in rural counties—many of which have no practicing dentists. Inconsistent oral care means more worse than bad teeth; it can lead to gum disease, body-wide bacterial infection, and even cancer.
We provide high quality dental care through our community outreach programs to improve health in Houston and across Texas. We serve patients of all ages, but in particular, we focus on three of the most vulnerable populations—children, older adults, and communities without access to care—many of which are living with painful, broken, or missing teeth. Our aim to reduce the disparity in dental care and improve general health by providing care through our Mobile Dental Vans and through outreach and oral health education events such as Give Kids a Smile and Give Vets a Smile.
For more than 100 years, the School of Dentistry has been a dependable source of low-cost dental care for patients of all ages through our community outreach programs across the state and at our primary care location in the Texas Medical Center.
As oral health professionals, we are called to not only move the field forward, but to care for people in every community, near and far. Your support of Many Faces. One Mission. will help ensure we can carry out this calling in the communities that need it most.