At Dientes, we envision a community where children can focus on school instead of a toothache, adults can make good first impressions and get a job because they have a healthy smile, and seniors can comfortably eat nutritious foods.
Our goal is to make prevention more common than treatment.
We serve publicly insured and uninsured patients of all ages through four clinics in Santa Cruz County and an Outreach Program with multiple locations at schools and community hubs. We offer affordable sliding scale fees for those without insurance. For low-income patients in our community, we are the only provider of dentures, oral surgery, and endodontics (root canals).
We stand together for equity and justice for all.
We believe that having access to oral healthcare is a social justice issue—one that we fight to correct every day. Dientes addresses inequities created by race, ethnicity, language, zip code, income, education, gender, and age by providing access to high quality, affordable oral healthcare—so that everyone has the dignity that comes from a healthy smile. We also do this by supporting a diverse workforce and providing opportunities for all races and genders to advance in their careers.
The results are in!
After an enormous amount of work to expand access to oral health care in Santa Cruz County we have made incredible progress.
View the 2022 Oral Health Needs Assessment
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