Bear Lake Community Health Center – Garden City Clinic, Garden City
Box Elder Community Health Center, Brigham City
Cache Valley Community Health Center
Clinics in Logan, Hyrum and North Logan
Carbon Medical Service, East Carbon
Community Health Centers Inc.
Clinics in Brigham City and throughout Salt Lake Valley
Dixie State University Dental Hygiene Clinic, St. George
Enterprise Valley Medical Clinic, Enterprise
Family Healthcare
Clinics in St. George and Cedar City
Green River Medical Center, Green River
Midtown Community Health Center, Ogden
Mountainlands Community Health Center, Provo
Mountainlands Family Health Center
Clinics in Provo, Payson and Vernal
MTCHC Davis County Clinic, Clearfield
Ogden Rescue Mission Inc., Ogden
Roseman University of Health Sciences – Utah Campus, South Jordan
Rosewood Family Dentistry, Tooele
Rosewood hosts an annual “Free Dental Day”
San Juan Family Dental, Monticello
SLCC Dental Hygiene Clinic, West Jordan
University of Utah Dental Clinic
Locations in Salt Lake City and Midvale
UPFH Dental Care, Midvale
Utah College of Dental Hygiene, Orem
Montezuma Creek Community Health Center, Montezuma Creek
UVU Dental Hygiene Clinic, Orem
Wayne Community Health Center, Bicknell
Weber State Dental Hygiene Clinic, Ogden
Why is this important?
Drug addicts were more successful in treatment with dental care.
For the study, members of the university’s School of Dental Hygiene provided free dental care to people receiving treatment at Odyssey House. The study reports that those who received dental care were two to three times more likely to stay in substance abuse treatment.
According to Dr. Glen R. Hanson, who led the study, improving a person’s quality of life can help them recover from chronic diseases, including substance abuse.
“The very factors that we had been looking at in this study with oral health that seemed to improve so dramatically are the very same factors that are used as core indicators for quality of life,” Hanson said.