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NEWS & notes Community Dental Care Opens 13th Dental Center in Grand Prairie Community Dental Care’s Grand Prairie Dental Center recently opened a new state-of-the-art dental center facility at 801 Conover Dr., Grand Prairie, TX 75054, located inside the E. Carlyle Smith, Jr. Health Center, Parkland Health & Hospital System’s newest community-oriented primary care center. According to Community Dental Care’s CEO Sharon Fulcher-Estes, “This is a milestone accomplishment for us and our Parkland partnership and for Grand Prairie. Thousands of at-risk children, adults, and seniors will now have better access to affordable dental care in 2014 as a result of the opening of the Grand Prairie Dental Center.” Community Dental Care, the Dallas area’s premier safety net provider of dental services and a non-profit organization, is committed to providing dental care and oral health education to low and moderate income children, adults, and seniors across the metroplex. The Grand Prairie Dental Center is the thirteenth dental center operated by Community Dental Care. Like Community Dental Care’s 12 other dental centers, the new Grand Prairie Dental Center will treat patients of all ages and will accept Medicaid, CHIP, and major insurances such as Delta Dental, Assurant, CIGNA, and others. To increase accessibility and affordability of dental care, Grand Prairie Dental Center will use an income-based sliding fee scale to provide discounted services for low and moderate income individuals. Parkland’s forward thinking vision to include oral health care as a part of a patient’s overall health concerns allows Community Dental Center to co-locate a number of its dental centers, including the new Grand Prairie Dental Center, with Parkland’s community-oriented primary care centers. To schedule a dental appointment, make a donation, or ask questions about patient eligibility, visit www.communitydentalcare.org or call (214) 630-7080 ext. 100. Submit your news to [email protected] www.northtexasdentistry.com | NORTH TEXAS DENTISTRY 25