Saturday, April 11, 2009

County dental clinic overflows with patients - Page 2 - MLive.com

County dental clinic overflows with patients :

Kalamazoo is fluoridated: "The clinic has become so overrun with demand that some people started waiting outside the Gull Road facility as early as 6:15 a.m. Monday to be the first ones to sign up.

Within one hour, every opening for the next month was booked, and health officials had to turn people away.

In 2008, the clinic treated 2,846 people with fewer than three full-time dentists and three hygienists on staff. Emergency walk-ins have jumped 21 percent, from 709 people in 2007 to 858 in 2008."