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QUEENSCARE/USC
DENTAL MOBILE CLINIC
According to the Los Angeles Unified School District, tooth pain is the number one reason given for children missing school and more than 50,000 children annually report to school nurses complaining of toothache. To address this situation, the USC School of Dentistry partnered with QueensCare—a non-profit healthcare provider for low-income Angelenos—to create the USC/QueensCare Mobile Dental Clinic. Since 2001, this unique collaboration has provided free comprehensive dental care to low-income second- and third-grade students at Hollywood-area elementary schools. Due to overwhelming need, a second QueensCare/USC dental clinic was established in 2004. By bringing the mobile dentistry vehicles directly onto school grounds, USC faculty and students are able to provide comprehensive dental care and oral health education to more than 13,000 children at 30 elementary schools every year. |
  Toothache is one of the leading causes of absenteeism in the Los Angeles Unified School District. -Maria Reza, Assistant Superintendent of Student Health and Human Services Los Angeles Unified School District This is the first mobile clinic providing comprehensive dental care to students of the Los Angeles Unified School District. -Charles Goldstein, Director of Community Outreach Programs University of Southern California School of Dentistry |
