New dental clinic is a community effort The Herald-Mail
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Healthy Smiles Community Oral Health Center was dedicated on Tuesday morning to those who were instrumental in getting a dental clinic in the Eastern Panhandle.
The 2,500-square-foot clinic on Warm Springs Drive in the north end of Martinsburg opened in early December and is available to everyone. The center takes patients with dental insurance, the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHiP) and Medicaid. It offers a sliding fee for patients without insurance, said Dave Fant, executive director of Shenandoah Community Health, which oversees Healthy Smiles.
Nearly 100 people crowded into an unfinished office next to the center for the dedication, which was followed with a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside.
Fant read off the names of numerous foundations, organizations and individuals who helped make the oral health center a reality. A plaque with those founders’ names will hang inside Healthy Smiles, he said.
