{"id":196,"date":"2015-06-25T14:25:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=196"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:22:31","slug":"free-dental-care-to-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/free-dental-care-to-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE DENTAL CARE TO VETERANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASPEN DENTAL PROVIDING FREE DENTAL CARE TO VETERANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most veterans who completed active duty are eligible for health benefits through the Veterans Health Administration, with one big exception: dental care.<\/p>\n<p>In general, dental care is limited to veterans with a service-related disability, former prisoners of war, and people participating in a VA Vocational Rehabilitation program. And even then, the dental procedures a person is eligible for vary widely depending on service history and other factors.<\/p>\n<p>To help bridge this gap, Aspen Dental, which has more than 300 locations in the U.S., is offering free dental care and screenings to all veterans on <strong>Saturday, June 27<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dentists and their staff are volunteering their time for the event, which is part of the broader community-based Healthy Mouth Movement launched last year.<\/p>\n<p>An advance appointment is necessary to take part in the free dental care for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Call 1-844-AspenHMM (1-844-277-3646) to schedule an appointment and find a participating location near you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASPEN DENTAL PROVIDING FREE DENTAL CARE TO VETERANS Most veterans who completed active duty are eligible for health benefits through the Veterans Health Administration, with one big exception: dental care. In general, dental care is limited to veterans with a service-related disability, former prisoners of war, and people participating in a VA Vocational Rehabilitation program. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/free-dental-care-to-veterans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FREE DENTAL CARE TO VETERANS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}