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How Your Contribution Helps
Dental Care Services
Your contribution can make a huge difference in someone’s life. We are here for patients, their
family members, and others who have special dental care needs. We are a phone call or mouse click
away, with the latest information dental access and treatment. For stories about the amazing impact
of dental care on some of Apple Tree’s patients, click on Patient Stories.
Research
You can help advance the art and science of dentistry with your donation. Apple Tree’s oral health
database includes diagnostic and treatment data on over 30,000 patients, and has been used for numerous
research projects and publications. Research based on Apple Tree’s data has focused especially on nursing
home patients. For information about a study of the the stability of oral health status in a long-term care
population click on the following story
Barbara Smith Receives PhD from U. of Michigan.
Community Health Leadership
You can help change the big picture with your financial contribution. Apple Tree works with
other organizations and individuals on projects that help improve the dental healthcare system.
These projects, under the name of “The Apple Tree Institute” involve educational collaborations,
clinical innovations, dental policy partnerships, and research projects. For more information,
click on these stories:
Growing Up Healthy means smiles in SW Head Starts
Clinical Education Partnership Creates New Roles for Hygienists
The Oral Healthcare Solutions Project
Advocacy and Public Policy
Dental care is not just a medical issue, it’s also a political issue. Decisions about dental care
are made every day not just in the dentist’s office but in the Minnesota Legislature and in the U.S.
Congress. That’s why Apple Tree works with organizations like the Minnesota Association for Community
Dentistry and the Minnesota Dental Association to have a voice for dental access at the Capital. Your
contribution helps the interests of vulnerable people be heard. For more information, please see these
articles:
Dental Policies Bolster Declining Dental Workforce
U. S. Senate Special Committee Looks at Ageism in Health Care
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