P A R A M O U N T
PULSE BEAT
November 2013
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The Ayuda Clinic helped more than 50 patients leave the mobile clinic with a smile.
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he Ayuda Clinic, Harbor Dental Society Foundation, and the Harbor Dental Society held a free community outreach event in Paramount to assist elementary and middle school students with some much needed dental care. Local dentist Dr. Max Martinez, Immediate Past President of the Harbor Dental Society along with Dr. Ashok Mehta, Immediate Past Chair of the Harbor Dental Society Foundation, spearheaded the effort, including coordinating the event with representatives from the City of Paramount, and the Paramount Unified School District. After a year of planning the Mobile Dental Clinic came to Paramount on October 19. The event was held in the Paramount High School Gym where the concession stand doubled as the instrument and sterilization facility. School age children as well as adults were seen for fillings, extractions, cleanings, fluoride treatments and sealants. Paramount High School students from the Health Careers Academy program assisted the doctors and helped patients fill out necessary forms. Ayuda is a dental program out of USC dental school; students and faculty volunteers provide dental treatment using portable equipment to under-served children at elementary schools throughout Los Angeles and Orange County. Twice a year volunteer doctors in cooperation with Ayuda travel to Central and South America to deliver free patient care. The Ayuda program is headed by Dr. Harris Done a faculty member Paramount Chamber of Commerce
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Dr. Max Martinez with Dr. Mehta and students from the USC Dental Program.
at USC and a dentist in Orange County. The event was attended by; Vice Mayor Diane Martinez, Councilmember Tom Hansen, PHS Board President Vivian Hansen, Vice President Sonya Cuellar, Board Member Alicia Anderson, and Manuel San Miguel, Director of Student Services.
Dr. Martinez said, “This is just one example of how working together for the common good can make a difference.” Approximately 50 patients were seen at the mobile clinic, and more than $25,000.00 in free dental treatment was provided.
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