Huge Dental Clinic Serves Hundreds

COLLEGE PARK, MD- SEPTEMBER 05: Patients lined up in rows of dental chairs were served with an almost assembly line efficiency. The University of Maryland Terrapins' basketball court was transformed into a mobile dental clinic with 100 dental chairs to provide $1 million of free dental care to 1,000 underserved, uninsured, and underinsured adults. The dental clinic is part of the two-day Mission of Mercy (MOM) and Health Equity Festival, sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Public Health's Center for Health Equity (an NIH-NIMHD Center of Excellence on Race, Ethnicity, and Disparities Research), and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington. Approximately 800 volunteers, including licensed dentists, hygienists, and dental assistants, provided state of the art dental services, including cleanings, fillings, extractions, root canals and oral hygiene education. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)