Community Service Events
Free Dental Clinic at Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church, 9 am; Sojourn Community Church, 10 am and Family Community Clinic~Dental (St Joseph's Church), 8:00 am in Louisville. There will be free dental clinics at these locations in 2020 beginning on January 11th. Dentists and hygienists treating the patients are all volunteers.
Patients: If you would like to be a patient at one clinic, be sure to come early as the times to be seen fill up fast. Go to
freesmileslouisville.com to get addresses & directions to clinics.
FCC Dental is by appointment only. Send email to Taylor@freesmileslouisville.com to make appointments.
We can always use a few more dentists and hygienists.
Go to freesmileslouisville.com to sign up.
2020 Dates
Jan 11: FCC Dental Clinic by appointment only, opens at 8 am 1420 East Washington St. 40206
Jan 18 4th Avenue UMC, walk-ins welcome, opens at 9 am, 318 East St Catherine St. 40203
Feb: 8 4th Avenue
Feb 15: FCC Dental Clinic
Feb :29 Sojourn Community Church, opens at 10 AM, walk-ins welcome, 1207 S. Shelby St, 40203
Mar: 14 & 28 FCC Dental
Apr: 8 4th Avenue
Apr 25 FCC Dental
May 16 4th Avenue
May 30 FCC Dental
June: Sat 13 FCC Dental
Aug 8 FCC Dental
Aug 22 4th Avenue
Sept 12 & 26 FCC Dental
Oct: 10 4th Avenue
Oct 24 FCC Dental
Nov: Sat 7 Sojourn Community Church
Nov 21 4th Avenue
Dec: Sat 5 FCC Dental
Dental Volunteers please sign up online at freesmileslouisville.com
WaterStep and the Louisville Dental Society
The Louisville Dental Society certainly plays a huge role in the city’s dental community, but its members go above and beyond their day to day responsibilities to help those around them. LDS has served the community this past year through their Teeth to Toes campaign partnership with WaterStep, a non-profit whose mission is to save lives with safe water, and it was through one of the Louisville Dental Society’s members that made this partnership possible. Dr. Joe Jacobi, a selfless leader who serves as the liaison between the two organizations, is actively involved in the Louisville Dental Society as he practiced dentistry for 36 years before selling his company and going into full-time service work with WaterStep. At WaterStep where he has volunteered since 2011, he supervises the volunteer manufacturing team who builds the water treatment products that WaterStep sends around the world, participates in the research and development team to develop and produce new technologies and equipment for water treatment and sanitation, and has traveled with field teams on many water projects, most recently to Puerto Rico. Because of Dr. Joe’s work, WaterStep and the LDS have been able to collaborate to help change the world with safe water through the Teeth to Toes campaign, a program with a mission to get shoe drives in dental offices in the region. These shoe drives help fund the endeavors that WaterStep undertakes to fix the water problem around the world. Already, several dental offices have partnered with WaterStep through the campaign and are not only collecting shoes, but are spreading the word about this nonprofit’s mission because of this. If you would like to participate in the campaign by hosting a shoe drop-off box in your office, please contact Natalie Bonura at natalie.bonura@waterstep.org for more information.
Smile Kentucky! tackles the most common disease affecting U.S. children, dental decay. Smile Kentucky! is a unique community partnership to provide dental education and free dental care to children at elementary schools in Louisville Metro and surrounding counties. Smile Kentucky! complements an effort by the
American Dental Association (ADA). The ADA has called the program a model for community service.
Smile Kentucky provides education resources for the classroom and the community. Check out the new Brush your teeth! video and other tools to teach proper dental care to children and young adults.
Learn about the program and how to get involved.
lds@kyda.org or 502/244-2005
Other Community Service Events that LDS member dentists were involved in:
June 30 at St James Church on Taylor Blvd. Drs Paul Boyd, Bobby Mann, Tony Distler & Michelle Carman plus 4 ULSD 3rd year students.Dental screening & oral hygiene instructions.
July 21 at the Western Branch Library. Drs Tony Distler and Ashley Casconi and ULSD 3rd yr student, Darius Sanford. Oral hygiene instructions.
July 28, Hispanic Health Fair at St Bartholomew Church. Drs Carman, and Janiece Wooten-Kerr and 2 ULSD students. Dental screening & oral hygiene instructions.
Aug 11 at Ralph Avenue Baptist Church Dr Charlie Tritle screened children in a Back to School event. Oral hygiene supplies were given.
Almost 200 patients were screened at these community service health fairs. Toothbrushes and toothpaste were donated by Colgate Bright Smiles Bright Futures.