ABOUT PIEDMONT SMILES
Piedmont Smiles
Piedmont Smiles is a free community dental day event which will place place for the third year, on November 2, 2024.
Piedmont Smiles has been hosted for the past two years. It is a one-day, pop-up event that provides free dental care to members of our community — including Fauquier County, Rappahannock County and the surrounding area. Our goal is to treat hundreds of patients in one day; those patients will register, see dental professionals, and get dental treatment, all at no cost to them.
We provide several free services for patients, including: health screenings, cleanings, fillings and extractions.
This event is primarily organized by the Fauquier Free Clinic, with support from the Virginia Dental Association Foundation and community stakeholders.
ABOUT THE FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC
Fauquier Free Clinic
The Fauquier Free Clinic’s mission
is to serve the Fauquier and Rappahannock communities by providing comprehensive medical, dental and mental health care to eligible residents. Since its founding in 1993, the Free Clinic has grown to serve more than 2,000 patients each year at two locations in Fauquier and Rappahannock counties. In 2020 alone, they received more than 7,000 free care visits.
ABOUT MISSION OF MERCY
Mission of Mercy
Mission of Mercy (MOM) is a Virginia Dental Association Foundation (VDAF) program that provides free dental care to underserved areas of the state where there are not enough dental practitioners to adequately address the oral health needs of the community.
Dr. Terry Dickinson, former executive director of the Virginia Dental Association, created the MOM program in 2000 to provide high-quality care to underserved Virginians. The MOM program operates mobile clinics in strategic locations across the state, providing preventive, restorative and surgical dental treatments to more than 2,000 low-income individuals each year.