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Back-to-School Means Free Dental Care for Some Wayne County Kids

University of Detroit Mercy dental students and staff will take the services to the schools under $585K grant from Delta Dental Foundation.

Thousands of Wayne County school children will be eligible for free dental care beginning this fall under a partnership between the University of Detroit Mercy and the Delta Dental Foundation. which has provided grants worth $584,907 to make the service possible.

University of Detroit Mercy students and faculty will take four dental chairs and a mobile office to elementary schools to provide comprehensive, preventative and restorative treatment, the Detroit Free Press reports.

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“Most kids in Wayne County don’t have access to high-quality dental care so the mobile coach will get to the children while they are in school,” Delta Dental Foundation Director Teri Battaglieri. “It provides dental care to children right where they are.”

About 1,600 patient visits are expected in the 2015-2016 school year.

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UDM is working on the list of schools that will receive care.

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