Cincy Care to Share, now in its third year, will once again provide an opportunity for clients to receive free dental work Friday.
Scott Sayre, owner and dentist at
Advance Dentistry, founded the event because he says the need for dental treatment in this country “goes largely under the wire.”
“There’s almost nobody that in their life escapes dental disease, and when you actually compound that to the really big problem—massive amounts of dental disease—it’s just horrendous,” Sayre says. “The need is huge.”
Clients over the age of 18 will be entitled to one free cleaning, filling or extraction. Last year, Sayre says about 300 individuals received these services, and this year, he says he hopes to serve even more.
“We had one mom that was going two weeks later to see her son graduate from the Marines’ boot camp,” Sayre says. “So we were able to do several extractions that day—a little more than we were supposed to—but we got her ready so she could get fitted for dentures and have her smile back before she went to see her son and all his friends.”
It’s stories like this, Sayre says, that prompt him to host the community-wide event, and that inspire him to build upon the event’s foundation in years to come.
“What I’d like to do in the future is have Cincy Care to Share where we’re doing dentistry here, maybe others are helping in their offices on the other side of town, we’ve got a general physician doing checkups, lawyers offering their services over here—I’d like to break the whole thing loose,” Sayre says.
“Patients are in pain. They don’t know where to turn, but they’re able to come here and get some care that day. So I think if we can help in our own backyard, it’s just a really important thing to do.”
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