Kaiser Permanente awards United Health Centers $100K grant for new dental equipment

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- United Health Centers is taking enactment to amended dental attraction successful agrarian communities -- with assistance from Kaiser Permanente.

Patients astatine UHC's 10 dental clinics are saying goodbye to the goop, arsenic the accepted mode of taking molds oregon impressions is going high-tech.

"With this technology, we're capable to really alteration that acquisition and usage antithetic applications of objective dentistry -- whether that beryllium crown and bridge, oregon whether that beryllium thing general, similar conscionable taking integer impressions truthful that we tin survey your wound and your teeth implicit time," explained UHC objective director, Dr. Sonia Relingo. "We tin actually, for recurring patients, we tin show the deterioration patterns connected their teeth."

Dental clinics from Fresno to Tulare counties each person 1 intraoral scanner.

Kaiser Permanente awarded UHC a $125,000 assistance to assistance them acquisition the caller equipment.

According to UHC's Chief Administrative Officer, it allows the wellness halfway to supply high-quality attraction to its patients -- galore of whom acquisition barriers to dental care.

"We're each serving the aforesaid community, right? We're serving the aforesaid people," Miguel Rodriguez said. "So I truly admit the concern that we person with Kaiser and supporting our efforts to supply the services that we bash successful the communities that we're serving."

In summation to dental services, UHC besides focuses connected wellness literacy to marque definite each diligent who sits successful a dental seat learns and understands what actions they tin instrumentality to amended their oral health.

United Health Centers accepts assorted methods of payment, including Medi-Cal, Medicare, and backstage insurance. Services are provided to patients without security connected a Sliding Fee Scale, according to the patient's income and fig of household members.

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