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<\/span>Our History<\/span><\/div><\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]WesternU We Care Dental was founded with the mission of providing quality care to those with special needs and others who might not have access to dental services. Although we maintain that focus for our practice, we are pleased to serve all patients in the Coachella Valley.<\/p>\n

We Care Dental was founded by Marianne and Russell Benson in 2009 utilizing volunteers and donated space and supplies. Their mission was to provide quality dental care at an affordable price to those who otherwise would not have access to dental treatment \u2013 patients with disabilities, seniors, veterans, and others without dental insurance. In 2011 they opened a four chair clinic that added dental students from Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine in Pomona, CA. Care for patients was funded by a mix of fee for service, dental insurance, and grants administered through a partnering public benefit charity called Dessert Friends of the Developmentally Disabled. The addition of 2 dental residents (dentists seeking advanced training in general dentistry, AEGD) in 2015 provided through a jointly sponsored program with NYU Langone Dental Medicine Postdoctoral Residency Program. This program added additional providers to serve an expanding patient base. However, We Care Dental rapidly outgrew its small facility and therefore to better serve the community partnered with WesternU in 2016 to open a new 11 chair facility a few blocks from the original location.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]

<\/span>We Care Dental Today<\/span><\/div><\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

We Care Dental now hosts two dental residents and 7 WesternU dental students. Our full time dental faculty and part time specialist faculty provide overall clinical supervision with the assistance of highly trained clinical staff. At the state-of-the-art facility patients receive excellent yet affordable care in a humanistic environment by students and residents supervised by WesternU College of Dental Medicine faculty dentists. Although WesternU We Care Dental still maintains its mission of providing care to special needs and medically complex patients and others with limited access to care, anyone is welcome at We Care Dental.<\/span><\/p>\n

Western University of Health Sciences also has a Dental Center within the Patient Care Center on their main campus located in Pomona, CA. The center offers comprehensive and specialty dental services under expert faculty supervision.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]WesternU We Care Dental was founded with the mission of providing quality care to those with special needs and others who might not have access to dental services. Although we maintain that focus for our practice, we are pleased to serve all patients in the Coachella Valley. We Care Dental was founded by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t