Changing Lives… One Smile at a Time Meet the first Foundation for Endodontics & U.S. Endo Partners Domestic Access to Care grant recipients
Sometimes, endodontics is about a lot more than relieving a patient’s oral pain or restoring a smile. Sometimes, you can change a life with a root canal.
Meet Our Grantees for 2021!
In 2021, the Foundation launched a new funding initiative, its Domestic Access to Care program, to address the urgent need for endodontic specialty care in at-risk populations. Kicking off with generous backing from U.S. Endo Partners over five years, the funding supports local initiatives led by AAE members who apply for the competitively awarded grants. All recipients in this inaugural cycle partnered with community dental clinics. “Just the other day I had a young man who chipped his front tooth while holding his baby, and he had a job interview in two
weeks,” said Dr. Francisco Nieves of Fort Worth, who volunteers at Mercy Clinic. “We were able to restore that tooth in time for the interview.” Proposals submitted cover the costs of endodontic equipment, supplies, and other consumable materials needed for free care. Four grant recipients, located in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, TX, and Raleigh, NC were chosen from among 14 submissions whose requests altogether totaled 10 times the available funding for the first year, indicating the need for additional charitable support to continue growing the program.
Domestic Access to Care requests in 2021 totaled 10 times the available funding. Visit aae.org/foundation/give to contribute to even more worthy projects in 2022!
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