California's budget crisis has led to severe cuts for Denti-Cal, and has left many of San Diego's low-income families without access to dental care. A sponsorship from Tom's would allow FHC to provide treatments and procedures for families experiencing a demonstrated financial hardship.

Our SmileCare Everywhere van provides dental screenings and hygiene care to migrant farm workers, children, and homeless individuals in Washington County, OR. The Tom's sponsorship money would purchase a small sterilizer and four Cavitron units to facilitate sterilization onsite, enabling the clinic to significantly increase services.

We would like to install digital radiography in two of our five operatories. Installing digital radiology will decrease the time involved in taking x-rays from roughly 25 minutes, to 10 minutes per patient. We expect to increase the number of patients by 30% or 700 patients.

In summer 2010 we will send an outreach team to 8 locations including pre-schools, day care centers, churches, community centers and senior centers, to inform and educate the latino population of North Philadelphia on oral health issues, and will follow up on these outreach sessions with dental and x-ray screenings at these locations in the Fall of 2010.

This new program would increase the access and level of care to treat patients in need, by purchasing supplies like x-ray film, needles and syringes, suture materials, impression materials, infection control products, injectable and topical anesthetics, gloves, and face and body protection.

Families First would send a mobile dental team to provide dental care at sites convenient for homeless people, with no appointments needed and no fees, and increase the number of subsidized visits offered to homeless people at Families First Dental Center for followup treatment.

Holland Free Clinic (HFHC) will use the Tom's sponsorship to purchase x-ray equipment and development supplies, and consumable supplies needed to clean teeth at our new clinic. This will allow us to increase access for the poor and uninsured in the greater area of Holland, MI.

In order to continue to provide the highest quality dental care for underserved RI pediatric populations, state-of-the-art equipment is needed. Our Pediatric Dental Program requests funds to purchase a dental operatory and related equipment/supplies, which will be housed at the SJHS Pediatric Dental Center in South Providence, Rhode Island.

We will provide affordable pediatric dental care to low income children living in the northern 2/3 of Maine, where specialty pediatric dental care is not available. This involves hiring a specialty dentist, and creating a new space with 9 dental chairs especially designed for infants and children, including those with special health care needs.

Dientes seeks funding to subsidize lab fees for the many patients who have tremendous dental needs, but cannot afford even discounted lab fees. This program links high-risk patients with private practice dentists, who provide pro bono quality, affordable and timely dental care. We call this program the Dental Affinity Program.

Neighborcare Health is building a new, permanent dental clinic in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, to preserve and expand services for thousands of low-income and uninsured residents. Serving nearly 4,300 patients annually, our clinic is the largest community health provider of primary dental care to Seattle's low income and uninsured residents, regardless of ability to pay.

To establish a Dental Access Fund to meet the oral health needs of medically-indigent refugees from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Our Carrboro location is acting as a primary care home for a new refugee populations of families from Myanmar, and in-migration is expected to continue at a rate around 200 to 300 families a year.

This new program would hire a dental assistant who will provide fluoride treatments and tailored oral hygiene instruction to over 300 homeless HIV/AIDS and diabetes patients over the course of a year, increasing the percentage of patients who receive these specialized services from under 10% to 85%.

We seek to provide basic dental care for a large and growing segment of individuals without access to care. We will provide dental cleanings to a large number of patients currently without Medicaid or having no access to insurance.

Community Healthcare Network (CHN) proposes to install digital imaging equipment in its Queens Health Center dental suites. This project will allow CHN to increase its capacity in providing essential dental services to high risk patients in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens.

We'll deliver much needed dental care to elderly residents in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities and senior apartments, by updating our mobile dental office. This project brings comprehensive dental care directly to the elderly, who may have a limited ability to travel, while eliminating medical transportation costs.