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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.”
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