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Texas Mission of Mercy for Texas Veterans
November 11-12, 2016
by Dr. Sloan Hildebrand
4017 South Lancaster Road, Dallas, TX 75216
There may not be a better time than
now to honor our Texas veterans for
their service to our country and for
fighting to preserve the freedom
that we all are blessed to enjoy.
We have all been affected in one way or another by the unnecessary and tragic loss of lives in the past months and years
within our own community and around the world. It is time to
team up together once again and start doing things for others
by serving and helping those in need. What better opportunity
than to do this as an appreciative effort for those who have
served us faithfully for so many years. This will be a free
two-day dental service event held down the street from the VA
Hospital in Dallas, specifically set up for Texas veterans on
Veterans Day.
We need over 100 dentists and 1,000 volunteers to
make this event a huge success. Please partner with us
and bring your colleagues, staff, friends and family to serve
those veterans in need of the most basic dental care. You can
sign up for two full days, one day or even half days if needed.
This experience will be uniquely rewarding for all of those that
attend and to serve our veterans in our home town is something
you should not miss. We need you on Veterans Day this fall to
help! The link to register is www.tmomvolunteer.org.
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The mission of Texas Mission of Mercy (TMOM) is to provide
emergent care to the public through portable dental clinic
setups and demonstrate the widespread need for dental
treatment services for economically challenged Texans.
On November 11-12, 2016 the TMOM will partner with the TDA
Smiles Foundation and the DCDS Foundation to serve together.
Since inception, TMOM has provided over 33,000 Texans with
over $17.8M worth of charitable dental care at 62 mission events.
Texas Mission of Mercy for Texas Veterans: Dallas
will be the first TMOM to specifically focus on treating
the dental needs of a target population, veterans.
Currently, only 10% of veterans living in Texas qualify for dental
benefits. That leaves an overwhelming number of our bravest
men and women in need of pain-relieving services that can be
unaffordable to those living on a fixed income. Through a partnership with the Dallas area Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)
and the Homeless Veterans Services of Dallas (HVSD), we
would be able to identify these heroes to attend the event. Our
goal for the Texas Veterans TMOM is to treat around 1,000
patients, in hopes to relieve their dental pain and restore them
to oral health. Also, this TMOM will be able to provide a limited
number of removable partial dentures so that some patients
leave with new smiles. Restoring a person's smile means restoring their self-confidence and increases their chances of obtaining gainful employment to end the cycle of poverty. Again,
please partner with us and give back to those who have already
given us so much. If not now, when?