Building Partnerships to Improve and Advance Oral Health

Being able to partner with Mobile Smiles helps bring critical and cost-effective services to our clients on-site. It saves us hours of transportation and missed classes for our participants while helping us holistically improve the lives of Mothers in our community!

Operation C.A.R.E. Ministries is a nonprofit in Altus Oklahoma that utilizes the services of Oklahoma Mobile Smiles to meet the needs of so many in our community to receive good dental care. The following is just one testimony of one of our clients. Ruby is a 35-year-old recovering addict. She was addicted to Meth for 18 years which completely ruined her teeth. She was very conscious about her smile and very insecure making it difficult to get a job. She came to the Oklahoma Mobile Smiles Unit through our office at Operation C.A.R.E. Ministries in Altus, OK. They pulled all the teeth that needed to be pulled for her to get partials. Now she has a job and has moved up to Management and has been sober now for five years. Ruby has self-confidence, loves to smile, and has become very outgoing. Without Oklahoma Mobile Smiles, she wouldn’t have this chance to succeed in life. This has given her a second chance of a better life.

Mobile Smiles coming to Muskogee gave us the opportunity to partner with several other agencies in town to offer a wide variety of services to those in need. With the mobile unit as an initial draw we had other organizations with mobile units and some just set up a booth to connect with and help many people.

Our ongoing partnership with Mobile Smiles has allowed us to offer dental services to our clinic patients and community members. Most of the people we serve have not seen a dentist in years due to cost or lack of insurance. Mobile Smiles has been a blessing to our clinic and community!