Children’s Dental Services Holds Grand Opening

DULUTH, Minn. — Children’s Dental Services held the grand opening of their new Dental Hub in Downtown Duluth.

This celebration marks the full installation of 10 dental chairs, new dental equipment, and housing for rotating providers to stay overnight after serving patients.

This clinic will be a central point to their ‘hub and spoke’ method, bringing portable clinics across surrounding communities to overcome transportation barriers.

The method expands access for up to 20 thousand more patients per year from Duluth and Northeast Minnesota.

“We’re open to everybody, but we all, you know, we accept all kinds of insurance, and people who don’t have insurance at all, and it can be really hard to get in for those folks and that. And if they don’t get in, they can become very sick. Dental disease can even lead to systemic illness and death. It can be fatal. So that’s what we’re about. Is really increasing that access to care for everybody in Duluth and across the northland” said Sarah Wovcha, Executive Director of Children’s Dental Services.

The clinic has been operating at a limited capacity over the past year to help meet the needs in the area.

Children’s Dental services began in 1919 to aid orphans during the Spanish flu pandemic.

They serve low-income children and families with a full range of services across 66 of Minnesota’s counties.