Dental Health & Homelessness: How You Can Help
Dental health issues can be devastating for anyone. If you’ve ever felt the inescapable pain of a toothache, you can certainly understand. Now, imagine if you didn’t have the financial resources to get dental care… imagine you were homeless, too. What can the city do to help? Fortunately, Portland’s local dental clinics offer many community outreach programs, providing services ranging from routine cleanings to more serious procedures like extractions or root canals. Programs like Bridgeview , Greater Portland Health , and Oregon Dental have well-established presences enabling their meaningful work. Well, what can you do to help? Once the patient is in contact with one of the services mentioned above, the hard work is mostly done. But, prevention of the problem is really the goal and that means making effective dental hygiene possible. Fortunately, this is an affordable proposition. Online vendors have many, many options for dental care kits like this one , but it’s more af...