Pediatric Dental Care – Mobile Health Unit
The Department of Public Health and Wellness is currently partnering with Smile!Kentucky and Jefferson County Public Schools to use it’s mobile van to bring dental screenings, sealants and fluoride varnishes to elementary school children.
Smile Kentucky! is a community partnership that tackles what the U.S. Surgeon General has called the number one common, chronic childhood disease, tooth decay. Smile Kentucky! Recruits volunteer dentists and hygienists to do free oral health screenings at school to children in grades three through five. In addition, over 60 health educators provide instruction to every student in kindergarten through sixth grade on brushing, flossing, the importance of fluoride and how to identify the amount of sugar in snacks. Click here to see a fact sheet on Smile!Kentucky. 
This fall, over 1,000 Jefferson County children in 13 schools will receive a free dental screening and health education through the Smile!Kentucky program and the Public Health and Wellness mobile unit.
Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program (KCHIP)
This program is also instrumental in helping children with low income families ((birth to 19 years of age). The phone number to call for more information on this program is:
1-877-524-4718
Adult Dental Care
Plans are underway for the Department of Public Health and Wellness to obtain a second mobile health unit. We hope to have the new unit and provide preventive and emergency dental services throughout the community in 2009.
COMMUNITY CARE PROGRAM
The University of Louisville School of Dentistry
This program helps individuals of low income get dentures and some extractions. This program is also based on your income. They also provide one time emergency care to those patients who qualify according to income.
For more information and to schedule an appointment call:
University of Louisville School of Dentistry
501 South Preston Street (corner of Preston and Muhammad Ali)
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 852-5096