Hundreds of patients are seen during a 2016 Florida Mission of Mercy free dental clinic in the Prime Osborn Convention Center in Jacksonville. The clinic being held there this year will look different because of COVID-19 safety measures.

The Florida Dental Association Basis will deliver totally free dental treatment to an approximated 1,000 men and women Friday and Saturday at a Jacksonville occasion.

At the foundation’s sixth Florida Mission of Mercy event, volunteer dental professionals will deliver “aid from the agony and an infection of untreated dental disease” for underserved and uninsured patients on a initial-occur, to start with-served basis, according to organizers.

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The occasion will consist of COVID-19 protection steps, such as a ticketing system allowing people today to look at in and return later, steering clear of crowds and standing in line, organizers mentioned. All sufferers and volunteers must put on masks, besides when people are getting screening and treatment method.

Companies will contain cleanings, fillings, extractions, pediatric dentistry, root canals and a minimal quantity of dentures and partials. 

The party was very last held in Jacksonville in 2016.

Ticketing starts at 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday at the Primary Osborn Convention Middle, 1000 H2o St. near downtown Jacksonville. The services end at 6 p.m.

For more information go to floridadental.org/basis/systems/mission-of-mercy.

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