“Our goal is to help people become healthy and presentable. Sometimes just getting their teeth cleaned helps someone feel more confident” shares Nancy Harmon R.D.H., Dental Director of the Dames and Knights of the Order of Malta’s Dental Clinic. She continues, “Our mission is to help provide healing. It is part of living out the call of the Beatitudes.” 

The Malta Dental Clinic, with the help of more than 200 volunteers, provided more than 1,100 visits for uninsured patients in the past year. These visits include examinations, x-rays, hygiene, fillings, extractions and making more than 140 dentures. They believe they are the only organization in the Detroit area that provides free dentures. 

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The Malta Medical Clinic student organization has joined the ever-expanding ranks of free community clinics coordinated by students at the Wayne State University School of Medicine that serve the area’s uninsured and underinsured population.

Students provide patient care every Wednesday from 1 to 3:30 p.m., with Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Joel Appel, D.O., serving as the students’ faculty advisor, and Beaumont Health Emergency Medicine physician Ed Jelonek, M.D., as the community physician.

“The WSU medical students help provide an environment and setting of reassurance and safety to the patients. This allows all the patients to feel comfortable talking and being at our clinic and thus be honest with the clinic staff and give more accurate information,” Dr. Jelonek said, the clinic's medical director.

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DETROIT — Burt Tyler, a disabled veteran, found out about Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan’s Center for the Works of Mercy through a friend from the veterans association. 

Randall Morgan discovered it when his parole officer referred him to the center’s food pantry and case management services.

Jeff Smith needed new teeth, and heard the center’s free dental clinic might be able to help.  

At 8642 Woodward Ave., the corporal works of mercy aren’t just a theory.

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