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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL NOVEMBER 29, 2017 7A CONGRATS LIONS! Dental clinic serves CG students By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com Fall Heating Tune-Up Only $99* We’ll make sure your system is running effectively and effi ciently. Call for details and an appointment today, and beat the winter rush! Complete Heating & Cooling System Service Reasonable Rates • All Work Guaranteed * Limited-time offer. Restrictions apply. Call for details. More than 6,000 students. Nearly 2,000 appointments. Just over 100 clinic days. $540,345 in dental work. Those are the three-year stats for the South Lane Children’s Dental Clinic “There is no other school dis- trict in the area that hosts a vol- unteer dental clinic,” program coordinator, Jackie Lester said. That, is part of the problem. The South Lane Children’s Dental Clinic will not turn away a child in pain. It’s primary pa- tient group, however, is made up of low-income students who qualify for Oregon Health Plan (OHP) with 90 percent of the students seen at the clinic, al- ready assigned to a provider. Those providers, though, have months-long waiting lists and can often be located in Eugene. According to Lester, that’s a driving force behind many of the appointments at the clinic: driving. “There are a few reasons why kids aren’t getting to their providers,” Lester said. “They can’t get there, their parents can’t take off work, their OHP isn’t current, they don’t know who their OHP provider is or there’s at least a four-month wait.” South Lane Children’s Den- tal helps fi ll in the gaps in treatment. Since it started in 2012, it has served 7,569 chil- dren; 6,736 screenings and 833 treatments. Currently, the pro- gram is screening all students between 6th and 12th grade which includes applying fl uo- ride and sealants with paren- tal permission. With a shift in priority, the number of students served, may increase. According to Lester, the clinic is planning to do more screening work to combat the need to perform more direct dental work. Lester told the South Lane School Board ear- lier this year that the original goal of the clinic was to treat as many students as possible. However, this year the clinic will shift to screening and ap- plying sealants and fl uoride as preventative measures-the hope being that the need for dental procedures will decrease. Lester says there’s a strong correlation between age and the number of sealant appli- cations performed. Younger children, who would benefi t in high school from having the procedure, receive it in fewer numbers than high schoolers. “The permission slip gets lost, it never gets to mom and dad,” Lester said. “Few ele- mentary students get the fl uo- ride or sealant.” More children, however, are getting seen by a dentist. Les- ter attributes part of the clinic’s success to the transportation service that picks children up from school, brings them to the clinic and then returns them to school, eliminating a costly day off work for parents and a trip up Interstate-5 to Eugene. That doesn’t mean, however, that the clinic doesn’t encour- age families to use their OHP providers. “We do outreach to over- come barriers to getting to the provider,” she said, noting that the staff with do home visits to walk a family through the OHP process. Currently, the clinic is fund- ed through a three-year grant from the Oregon Community Foundation. That grant, is in its fi nal year. According to Les- ter, future funding options are being explored, but the clinic isn’t going anywhere. While South Lane Children’s Dental Clinic serves children who are already assigned a pro- vider, it is able to recoup some of the funds. “Let’s look at who’s respon- sible for providing the treat- ment,” Lester said. “If that’s OHP, what is missing and what can we support to access ser- vices that are being paid for.” City council honors state champions LOW COST Local & Metro Weekday Trips Professional Caring Staff The support you need to find quality SENIOR LIVING SOLUTIONS Your Regional Public Transportation Service No elgibility requirements. 541-942-0456 southlanewheels.org Family & General Dentistry The Cottage Grove City Council honored the Cottage Grove Lions during its Monday, Nov. 27 meeting. The Lions brought home the school's fi rst ever state championship title garnering city-wide attention. 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