Donated Dental Services (DDS) is a program directed at those people who are unable to afford needed dental care because of a limited income which is clearly linked to a permanent disability, chronic illness or advanced age (65 and over).  All the information pertaining to the applicant’s need is based on a completed application and a phone interview done by the referral coordinator. Dentists have agreed to volunteer their services to 1-2 patients a year. Each volunteer dentist decides for him/herself whether to formally accept a person based on meeting the person and assessing his or her dental needs. The referral coordinator is available to help the volunteers with such matters as a referral to a specialist, and securing donated laboratory services should a patient need services with lab related needs. 

Four-hundred and seventy-three members of the Wisconsin Dental Association (WDA) donated more than $3 million in services to more than 1,200 disabled, senior, poor, and uninsured state residents between April 1998 and December 2006 through Donated Dental Services (DDS), a partner program between the WDA and the State of Wisconsin. The program is affiliated with the Wisconsin Dental Foundation.

For more information about Donated Dental Services, please contact your county Department of Aging, Health & Human Services or see below for an application form. 

Download a Donated Dental Services application

Contact

Julie Wilk at 414-755-4188 or 888-338-6852 or jwilk@wda.org if you live in Dodge, Fond du Lac, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan, Walworth Washington or Waukesha counties.

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Bonnie Townsend at 866-812-9840 or btownsend@wda.org if you live in any other Wisconsin county.