Here are a few examples of how WDA dentists do serve their communities and make a difference through charitable dental care for children and adults with limited financial resources across Wisconsin.

However, charity alone is not a sufficient oral health care delivery system.

Low-income patients suffer for various reasons: failure to care for their own oral health; inability to find a dental office for routine care, because small businesses can’t absorb the significant losses required by participation in the MA program; and lawmakers’ failure to sufficiently fund the dental care they have promised.

Click here to read about dentists’ many charitable care efforts.