Dental Day of Service June 25th

This happens every year around 25June.

Veterans Will Receive Free Dental Care at Nearly 400 Aspen Dental Practices Help Support Aspen Dental’s National Day of Service on June 25th

Thousands of veterans will receive free dental care on Saturday, June 25th, when doctors and their teams from nearly 400 Aspen Dental-branded practices in 33 states open their doors for Aspen Dental’s National Day of Service – an event that is expected to be the largest single-day oral health initiative for veterans in 2016.

Like millions of other Americans, veterans can struggle to find oral health care when they need it. That’s why Aspen Dental’s Healthy Mouth Movement, a community-giving initiative launched in 2014, is focusing its efforts on helping veterans get the dental care they need.

Here is how you can help:

Interested veterans should call 1-844-AspenHMM to find a participating practice in their community and schedule an appointment in advance – space is limited and appointments are filling up fast!

Participating Practices in Florida

Naples, FL

Estero, FL

Fort Myers, FL (Cypress)

Fort Myers, FL (Palm)

Port Charlotte, FL

Gainesville, FL

St Augustine, FL

Jacksonville, FL (River City)

Jacksonville, FL (Atlantic West)

Yulee, FL

Jacksonville, FL (Orange Park)

Crestview, FL

Pensacola, FL

Fort Walton Beach, FL

Ocala, FL

West Melbourne, FL

Altamonte Springs, FL

Clermont ,FL

Port Orange, FL

Lady Lake, FL

Daytona Beach, FL

Merritt Island, FL

Mt. Dora, FL

Sanford, FL

Ocala, FL (Silver Springs)

Orlando, FL (Waterford Lakes)

Panama City, FL

Tallahassee, FL

Lakeland, FL – North

Port Richey, FL

Winter Haven, FL

St. Petersburg, FL

Inverness, FL

Bradenton, FL

Tampa, FL (Mission Bell)

Spring Hill, FL

Brooksville, FL

Zephyrhills, FL

Pinellas Park, FL

Lake Wales, FL

Sebring, FL

Largo, FL

Palm Harbor, FL

Ruskin, FL (Sun City)

University Park, FL (Sarasota)

Venice, FL

Port St. Lucie, FL

Vero Beach, FL

Stuart, FL (Jensen Beach)

Royal Palm Beach, FL (Wellington)

More About Aspen Dental’s Healthy Mouth Movement

The Healthy Mouth Movement (HMM) is a community-giving initiative launched in 2014 to deliver free dental care to thousands of people in need in communities across the U.S. and oral health education to millions more. Since 2014, more than 7,000 patients have received free dental care through the HMM – an initiative that has spanned 33 states, resulting in more than $4.1 million dollars in free dental care, thanks to the generosity of dentists and team members from Aspen Dental practices across the U.S.

As you know, people who want a healthy mouth often struggle to find oral health care when they need it due to limited access to dentists, high costs, or lack of insurance. Those barriers kept more than 155 million American adults from visiting a dentist in the past year – just over half the adult population in the U.S. Among those are veterans, a patient population that resonated deeply with the volunteers from Aspen Dental practices because veterans do not receive dental care benefits through the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs unless they are 100 percent disabled or have a service-related injury to their mouths.

Since 2015, Aspen Dental has partnered with Got Your 6, a collaborative campaign that works to empower veterans and strengthen communities nationwide. Got Your 6 – meaning “I got your back”– focuses on six key pillars of veteran reintegration, including leadership, health, and education. Aspen Dental dentists and team members share in this same belief, and have helped shine a spotlight on an important issue, thereby truly making a difference in the lives of many veterans. It is a commitment that has continued in 2016, as Aspen Dental focuses once again on empowering veterans with a healthy smile.

Aspen Dental branded dental practices are independently owned and operated by licensed dentists. For more information about the relationship between Aspen Dental Management, Inc. and the branded practices, please visit

http://www.aspendental.com/

Please disseminate this information to any Servicemembers or military Families that may benefit from it.

 

 

About Jeff Cavanagh

Jeff Cavanagh spent his freshman year at St. Petersburg Junior College back in the early 70s before enlisting in the United States Navy. Soon after, he attended Jacksonville University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. After college, he was commissioned and became a qualified Surface Warfare Officer spending the next 22 years honing his skills as a ship-handler and expert recruiter before retiring in 1994. Jeff expresses a deep sense of pride in St. Petersburg College due to connections that go back many years. His father, Tom Cavanagh, was a career Air Force fighter pilot and combat veteran who taught Geography and Western Civilization at St. Petersburg Junior College in the 60’s and 70’s.