MCGILL UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF DENTISTRY

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MCGILL UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF DENTISTRY MOBILE
COMMUNITY CLINICS- THE MCGILL OUTREACH
PROGRAM The McGill Outreach Program uses the
McGill Faculty of Dentistry knowledge base and
their manpower to help promote the oral health of
disadvantaged people in the community.
MISSION To provide free basic diagnostic,
preventive, periodontal, restorative and surgical
therapy in order to meet some of the basic needs
of those vulnerable individuals in need of dental
care but whose access is limited due to
financial, psychological and/or physical reasons.
The McGill Outreach Program eliminates the
financial barriers by providing free basic dental
care and reduces psychological stressors by
setting up mobile dental clinics in community
centers that are familiar sites for the low
income, elderly, handicapped, and immigrant
groups of the population.

• WHO WE ARE
• McGill Faculty of Dentistry students with
  dentists who volunteer their time and expertise.
• 3rd and 4th year students on rotation who provide
  clinical treatment assisted by 1st and 2nd year
  students.
• A nine member management committee composed of a
  chairperson, coordinator, four community
  leaders plus three McGill staff members who
  oversee the program.
• Pre-dent students and prospective dental students
  aided by the Cote St Luc Emergency Medical
  Service who supply additional support.

• WHO WE HELP
• Over 750 clients aged between 3 to 100 years for
  the past 5years.
• Underprivileged groups including those who have
  low or no income, and are homeless, elderly,
  physically and/or emotionally disabled and recent
  immigrants.
• Clients who are referred to the program by a
  health care worker or a community agency leader
  who identifies those who are in greatest need and
  who would not otherwise be able to seek oral heal
  care.

• WHAT WE DO
• Using mobile dental units at various community
  sites dental students are able to do
• medical history,
• dental and soft tissue exam,
• cancer check,
• preliminary diagnosis,
• oral hygiene,
• debridement and polishing,
• topical fluoride treatments,
• pit and fissure sealants,
• Class I and II restorations, and
• minor adjustments to removable prostheses
• At the Montreal General Undergraduate clinic
  students can also
• take radiographs,
• make definitive diagnoses,
• do extractions

• WHY WE DO THIS
• Research surveys consistently find higher rates
  of caries and periodontal disease among those
  groups who
• earn less than 30,000 a year or are unemployed,
• have less than secondary education,
• are homeless, elderly, disabled,
• are recent immigrants to Quebec 1
• The most often cited reasons for not seeking oral
  health care among these groups include
• low income
• no dental insurance
• no time for appointments
• fear of pain and/or dentists
• language barriers
• low levels of education.
• geographic limitations 1
• There currently exist five recent initiatives in
  Quebec that are attempting to address this
  problem
• the McGill Outreach Program
• the McGill Summer Program

WHERE WE WERE in 2003/4 17 clinics at 7 sites
Distribution of clients from under-privileged
groups
Number of clients from 2000 to 2004

• TREATMENT PROVIDED
• Examination
• Hard and soft tissue check
• Radiographs
• Diagnosis
• Preventive Services
• Debridement
• Polishing
• Oral Hygiene instruction
• Fluoride applications
• Pit Fissure sealants
• Restorative
• Amalgam
• Composite
• IRM
• Removable
• Minor adjustments of partials
• Temporary relining of dentures
• Oral Surgery

• WHO WE HELP
• Referring agencies from 2000 to present
• Centres Jeunesses
• Chez Doris
• Le Bon Dieu Dans la rue
• Good Sheppard
• Maimonides Geriatric Foster Home Program
• Mission Brewery
• Mme Prend Congé
• Montreal Association for the Blind
• Montreal Chinese Community
• Norwood 7th Day Adventist Church
• Project Genesis
• Santropol Roulant
• St. Columba House
• Sun Youth
• Teen Haven
• Yellow Door

Treatment provided in between 2000 and 2004
Judiann Stern - May 2004
What the overall calculated cost of treatment
provided would have been to all our clients using
the fee guide issued from the lOrdre des
Dentists du Quebec for each year.