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Virginia
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Virginia Dental Association
7525 Staples Mill Road
Richmond, VA 23228
(804) 261-1610
(804) 261-1660 Fax
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Virginia Dental Association
7525 Staples Mill Road
Richmond, VA 23228
(804) 261-1610
(804) 261-1660 Fax
Visit our Website
Donations
Email us or visit our website to get information about donating funds, supplies or services for our next state MOM event.
Go to Make a Donation to contribute to the ADCF General Fund.
Email us or visit our website to get information about donating funds, supplies or services for our next state MOM event.
Go to Make a Donation to contribute to the ADCF General Fund.
Volunteer
Email us or visit our website to get information about volunteering for our next state MOM event.
Email us or visit our website to get information about volunteering for our next state MOM event.
Virginia Dental Health Foundation
The Virginia Employment Commission 2000 Population Projects estimated that one-in-five Virginians live in an underserved area. Typically these are rural communities with a significant impoverished population. Individuals in these areas (primarily the working poor, the elderly, the disabled, or the uninsured) are often left without any dental care to face extreme pain, discomfort, and embarrassment. In response to the lack of access to care and the resulting poor oral health of thousands of indigent Virginians, the Virginia Dental Health Foundation launched the Mission of Mercy (MOM) and began to "make caring visible." The Mission of Mercy projects are conducted in identified, underserved areas of the state where there are not enough dental practitioners to adequately address the oral health needs of the community. Any individual who is able to show up on site is considered eligible. Our intentions are not to judge, but rather to serve.
Thus far, a total of forty one MOM projects have been held in Wise County, the Eastern Shore, Northern Virginia, Martinsville, Norfolk, Grundy, Roanoke, Emporia, Goochland, Petersburg and New Orleans, LA. For each MOM project, there are hundreds of volunteers who participate. To date, 32,913 patients have been provided with over $16.3 million worth of free dental care. Virginia's MOM projects have broken records for the largest two and three day dental outreach clinics ever conducted in the United States. Other states have used the Mission of Mercy as a model for their state, i.e. Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado, West Virginia, Connecticut, and North Carolina.
The Virginia Employment Commission 2000 Population Projects estimated that one-in-five Virginians live in an underserved area. Typically these are rural communities with a significant impoverished population. Individuals in these areas (primarily the working poor, the elderly, the disabled, or the uninsured) are often left without any dental care to face extreme pain, discomfort, and embarrassment. In response to the lack of access to care and the resulting poor oral health of thousands of indigent Virginians, the Virginia Dental Health Foundation launched the Mission of Mercy (MOM) and began to "make caring visible." The Mission of Mercy projects are conducted in identified, underserved areas of the state where there are not enough dental practitioners to adequately address the oral health needs of the community. Any individual who is able to show up on site is considered eligible. Our intentions are not to judge, but rather to serve.
Thus far, a total of forty one MOM projects have been held in Wise County, the Eastern Shore, Northern Virginia, Martinsville, Norfolk, Grundy, Roanoke, Emporia, Goochland, Petersburg and New Orleans, LA. For each MOM project, there are hundreds of volunteers who participate. To date, 32,913 patients have been provided with over $16.3 million worth of free dental care. Virginia's MOM projects have broken records for the largest two and three day dental outreach clinics ever conducted in the United States. Other states have used the Mission of Mercy as a model for their state, i.e. Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado, West Virginia, Connecticut, and North Carolina.
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Newsweek article coverage of Remote Area Medical (RAM) event in Wise, VA, posted August 5, 2008. Read article on-line.
Newsweek article coverage of Remote Area Medical (RAM) event in Wise, VA, posted August 5, 2008. Read article on-line.