Content categorized as Oral Health

Health clinic expands to keep pace with poverty

D.C. nonprofit Community of Hope reopened its redesigned health clinic in Adams Morgan after two years of renovation. The new clinic has more facilities and specialized resources to serve the immigrant and asylee communities in Ward 1.

Georgetown medical students and D.C. General Family Shelter team up to bring free medical services to shelter residents

The volunteer-driven Hoya Clinic is a training ground for Georgetown medical students and a much-needed free clinic for residents of D.C. General Family Shelter.

Good Health Starts Young

Artist/Vendor Sheila White’s take on the importance of oral hygiene.

Culture, Classism and Cash Shape America’s Oral Health

Mary Otto’s new book, “Teeth,” explains why the oral health care system in America is in need of desperate repair.

Grand Opening of the Bread for the City Dental Clinic

At Bread for the City’s Northwest Center, located in the District’s Shaw neighborhood, guests gathered on Feb. 16 to cut a ribbon, and to celebrate the official beginning of a much-needed new health program.