JCDA - Canadian Dental Association
JCDA - Canadian Dental Association
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Do these patients’ stories<br />
sound familiar?<br />
Bernice presented to an Ontario<br />
dentist in desperate need of help.<br />
She had extracted her own front<br />
tooth the day before, saying that she<br />
couldn’t eat because the tooth was<br />
moving too much. Bernice is a 60year-old<br />
woman who has raised a<br />
family on her own and now has to<br />
work two jobs to make ends meet.<br />
Bernice was diagnosed with severe<br />
periodontal disease; however, her financial<br />
situation would not allow<br />
her to pay for the six extractions and<br />
two full dentures she required. She<br />
works for minimum wage and has no<br />
disposable income. She makes barely<br />
enough to pay her rent and buy groceries.<br />
Financial help from the Dentistry<br />
Canada Fund’s (DCF) Humanitarian<br />
Fund enabled Bernice to have<br />
the necessary work done to restore<br />
her oral health.<br />
What about this young girl?<br />
Ilea, a 15-year-old girl from Manitoba,<br />
was seen by a dentist at a local<br />
Does Your Donation Matter?<br />
Children’s Hospital Clinic. Ilea was<br />
receiving medication for depression<br />
and obsessive behaviour patterns.<br />
She was also being followed by an<br />
Eating Disorders Clinic as an outpatient<br />
and by psychiatry. Ilea’s obsessive<br />
behaviour included sleeping<br />
with cough candies in her mouth.<br />
This resulted in generalized cervical<br />
caries of almost all her posterior and<br />
mandibular anterior teeth. Through<br />
the course of previous dental treatment,<br />
Ilea’s dental anxiety was significant,<br />
so much so that any new<br />
treatment was going to have to be<br />
carried out under general anesthesia.<br />
Ilea required permanent stainless<br />
steel crowns, composites and extractions<br />
due to carious pulp exposures.<br />
Unfortunately, due to Ilea’s illness,<br />
her mother was unable to continue<br />
working, and her father’s workplace<br />
did not provide any dental benefits,<br />
which created financial difficulties<br />
for Ilea to access dental care. That’s<br />
when Ilea’s dentist stepped in and<br />
applied to DCF for financial assistance<br />
from its Humanitarian Fund.<br />
For more details about this transformational campaign, please contact Stephanie MacWhirter, Campaign Director, toll-free at 1.877.363.0326<br />
*Trademark of the <strong>Canadian</strong> <strong>Dental</strong> <strong>Association</strong>; used with permission.<br />
These examples illustrate how your<br />
donation to the Oral Health — Good<br />
for Life TM Campaign will help others<br />
just like Bernice and Ilea.<br />
In the 2006/07 fiscal year, DCF received<br />
20 similar requests for public<br />
outreach grants totalling over<br />
$38,000. Unfortunately, due to limited<br />
resources, DCF was only able to<br />
fund six cases or $8,200 worth of fee<br />
for service treatment.<br />
The goal of DCF’s Oral Health —<br />
Good for Life TM Campaign is to raise<br />
$10 million over five years, and in<br />
doing so, will provide an annual<br />
investment of $500,000+ into dental<br />
research, education and public<br />
outreach.<br />
So, if you care about oral health, then<br />
yes, YOUR DONATION MATTERS!<br />
Consider making a pledge — large or<br />
small — for the next three to five<br />
years and play a role in a vital health<br />
arena. Not just now, but for years to<br />
come.
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