Community Smiles Dental - Waukesha

Community Smiles Dental - Waukesha is a prominent dental clinic located at 210 NW Barstow St #305, Waukesha, WI 53188. It operates as a non-profit organization with a core mission to improve the lives of underserved individuals by providing accessible and affordable oral healthcare services, delivering preventive education, and advocating for systemic changes in healthcare. The clinic believes that everyone deserves a healthy smile and strives to create a healthier community by alleviating dental pain and improving oral health. The clinic serves a specific patient population, primarily individuals with BadgerCare/Forward Health/Medicaid insurance or those with incomes below 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines who are uninsured. For uninsured patients, a sliding fee scale is available to ensure affordability. Community Smiles Dental focuses heavily on providing care to children, who constitute a significant majority of their patients (around 88%), as well as pregnant women and adults with special healthcare needs. In 2023, they served 4,373 unique patients, providing millions of dollars in dental care. Community Smiles Dental offers a range of essential dental services including comprehensive exams, dental cleanings, simple restorations, and simple extractions. They also have special programs for pregnant women and adults with special healthcare needs. However, they do not provide orthodontics, wisdom teeth extractions, cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening, partials/dentures, implants, or bridges. Beyond direct patient care, Community Smiles Dental is deeply involved in community outreach and education. They provide oral health education presentations and take-home oral health kits to youth at select area schools. They also engage in innovative partnerships, such as their medical-dental integration pilot program, which places dental hygienists alongside pediatricians to screen and recruit low-income youth for dental care. The clinic also collaborates with residency programs to educate future healthcare professionals on the importance of oral health. Community Smiles Dental relies on the support of various partners, donors, staff, and volunteers, including professional dental healthcare providers and non-direct patient service volunteers for fundraising and outreach events. The Waukesha clinic is one of two full-time clinics operated by Community Smiles Dental, with the other located in Menomonee Falls.