UK Dental Care

Dental Services

Outreach Programs

Public Education

Voluntary Services

Speaker's Bureau

 

Overview

Community Based Pediatrics and Special Care

School Health/Mobile Dental Programs

• "Seal Kentucky" and East Kentucky Mobile Dental Programs - Serving Eastern KY and Fayette County.

• Western Kentucky Mobile Dental Program (3 counties) School-based prevention and treatment for economically disadvantaged children.

• Ronald McDonald House Charities Mobile Dental Program (Serving underserved children in Central Kentucky)

• Fayette County School Program (special clinics for disadvantaged children)

• School Dental Clinic in Eastern KY (Menifee County)

• School Dental Clinic in Western KY (Fulton County)

Special Pediatric Activities

• University of Kentucky Children's Hospital (Lexington) and Kosair Children's Games (with Kentucky Dental Health Coalition)

• Special Athletes, Special Smiles Program at Kentucky Special Olympics Games (with Kentucky Dental Health Coalition)

• Family Care Center (Lexington) (primary dental care for high-risk families and children)

AHEC-Community-Based Faculty Program

Extramural Dental Education

• Required Summer Extramural Course/Externship (4 weeks) (Extramural Clinical Site or Private Dental Practice

• Service-Learning-Individual Student and Group Projects

Oral Health Education/Advocacy (Public)

Kentucky Dental Health Coalition

• Joint with University of Louisville, Kentucky Dental Association and other dental groups and health advocacy organizations (public) in Kentucky. Statewide advocacy for improvement of oral health in Kentucky.

Oral Health Education for Public

• Kentucky Smile Curriculum/School-based Health Education

• Kentucky Oral Health Speakers' Bureau (Statewide-with Dental Coalition and State Oral Health Program)

Prepaid Dental Insurance Program

UK Dental Care (Self-insured)

• University Employees and Families (Central KY)

Basic Plan
Comprehensive Plan
Retiree Classic
Retiree Ultra

Women's Oral Health

• Assessing Oral Health Status, and Oral Health Education in collaboration with the New Opportunity School, Berea, Kentucky

Oral Health Research Surveillance/Health Policy

Oral Health Program (State)

• Dental Public Health Consultation and Technical Assistance

• Kentucky Oral Health Survey (with University of Louisville, Children's and Adult Surveys)

• Kentucky Oral Health Surveillance System

Medical Center

• Kentucky Center for Oral Health Research

• Kentucky College of Public Health

• Center for Health Services Management and Research