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Community Services
Community Services
In addition to providing low-cost, comprehensive dental health
services at its mid-Manhattan location, the NYU College of Dentistry
also provides extensive dental health outreach programs.
The NYU College of Dentistry:
- initiated a free, regional oral cancer screening
program in 1998 to raise awareness of the importance
of oral cancer prevention and early detection. The
initiative now includes 30 metropolitan-area health
care institutions and professional societies from
as far away as Pittsburgh and has catalyzed a national
oral cancer awareness campaign sponsored by the ADA;
- operates the Rosenthal Institute for Aesthetic
Dentistry, which is wholly dedicated to fostering
education, research, and patient care in dentistry.
The Rosenthal Institute combines the look and feel
of the best private dental practices in New York
City with the ambience of a luxury hotel.
- conducts a mobile dental care program, Smiling
Faces, Going Places, which travels daily throughout
New York State to a Head Start program, public school,
community health center, or facility for the developmentally
disabled, to provide critically needed dental services
to more than 5,000 New Yorkers annually, primarily
children, who would never see a dentist otherwise.
- conducts an annual consumer education campaign
under the banner of “Ask Your Dentist,” which
targets such issues as caries prevention in children,
the link between periodontal disease and premature
births, preventing smoking among school children,
and reducing systemic diseases by promoting periodontal
health.
Additional outreach efforts include the following:
- emergency dental services for 26,000 New Yorkers
annually;
- free oral health care for over 1,000 homeless children
living in shelters;
- a cavity-prevention program that also provides
children ages 2 to 11 with free fillings if they
follow the program’s recommendations and still
get cavities;
- a special infant dental education area for parents
and caregivers;
- free orthodontic care for poor and minority public
school children;
- free perinatal education and oral health care for
homeless mothers and their infants in community shelters
throughout the city; and
- low-cost dental care programs for all New York
City college students and their spouses and dependents
and all city high school students.
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