CENTRAL FLORIDA DENTAL OUTREACH
 
The Central Florida Dental Outreach was held on Saturday, June 7, and Sunday June 8th at Greenberg Dental's 21 operatory Highland Lakes shopping center office in the strip center on Colonial & Hiawassee in Orlando.  Many thanks to
 Dr. Andrew Greenberg who organized the event and donated the use of his office to have the event. We also want to thank Julie Kestler, of the Dental Care Access Foundation, for getting most of the other volunteers and promoting the event, and Northland Church for sponsoring the event and sending many volunteers to help with food and whatever else needed to be done. Other organizations that participated are Brassler, Creative Printing and Publishing, Florida Department of Health, MyDent, Pentron, Pine Hills Community Center, Orange County Government, Schein Dental, Sun Star Americas, and UCF School of Nursing.
There were several screening sessions ahead of time to have the patients scheduled so that more could actually be done on them at one time instead of just the most "urgent" treatment. Most of these patients do not have access to regular dental care and are very appreciative of any treatment that can be done. It was a huge success, and an honor to be able help over 200 patients who were treated that day.  There were many dentists and assistants who volunteered for both days.  Sandy Larew, Dental Hygiene Coordinator for the event, appreciates all the dental hygienists who took the time to volunteer:
 

Debbie Boccumini
Josephine Chan
Cathy Conaughty
Pilar Fierro
Anne Goodwin
Irene Kang
Velaina Koren
Teresa Kosta
Sandy Larew
Ingrid Lawrence
Jason Mahmalji
Susan Miller
Mari Pemberton
Paula Schad
Raiza Wagner
Patty Wingfield