Tom Eblen: Dental clinic serves low-income clientele, but the need is great
Many readers were touched when I wrote about the "extreme makeovers" that a Lexington modeling agency owner and her friends gave to 47-year-old twin sisters Hilda Bevins and Wilda Bryant.
The new hairstyles, clothes and makeup were great. But the most valuable help Bevins received was for her health, not beauty. Untreated tooth decay had left her in constant pain; a dentist and an oral surgeon donated their services to make it go away.
Oral health is a national problem, but it is worse in Kentucky than in most states. Untreated dental disease causes other health problems, hurts performance at school and on the job, and can make life miserable. Perhaps the biggest barrier to adequate dental care is cost.
"What do you do if you don't have insurance and you're barely making ends meet?" asked Dr. Robert Henry, who practices dentistry at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lexington.
That question led Henry and others from Faith Lutheran and Calvary Baptist churches in 2006 to renovate a building at 216 South Limestone and open Mission Lexington Dental Clinic.
Since then, three other churches - Good Shepherd Episcopal, Presbyterian and Maxwell Street First Presbyterian - and local organizations have joined in support of the volunteer spirit of 28 dentists and other dental professionals and students of the University Kentucky College of Dentistry.
"The dental pain can be devastating, and our true mission is to get people out of pain," said Henry, whose wife, Donita, a dental assistant, is the coordinator of the clinic. "This was the most difficult I've ever done - and more rewarding."
Mission Lexington is one of several local organizations, including the Clinic Refuge Southland Christian Church, that provide dental services to low-income people without insurance. But the need is much greater than the services available, and it only gets worse as treatment costs increase and fewer jobs offer affordable dental insurance.
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Donita Henry and Dr. Bob Henry treated a patient at Mission Lexington Dental Clinic on South Limestone. She is the clinic coordinator and he is the clinic's volunteer director. TOM EBLENBuy Photo Many readers were
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