The Reporter: February 1997, Vol.8, No.1
First Harlem DentCare Clinic Opens

Photo by Jonathan Smith

In December, Columbia's School of Dental and Oral Surgery and members of the community celebrated the opening of the first Harlem school-based Columbia Community DentCare Network Clinic at Intermediate School 136. The DentCare program is a partnership between Columbia and the northern Manhattan community to get ahead of oral diseases by preventing them. The school-based clinic is open to students of IS 136 and provides prevention services from Columbia dentists, hygienists, and dental assistants. The clinic is the first Harlem program among 25 programs expected to be in place at elementary and junior high schools in Washington Heights/Inwood and Harlem. Two programs are already in place in Washington Heights. Pictured from left are Dr. Allan J. Formicola, dean of the School of Dental and Oral Surgery; April Bond, first student visitor; Dr. James McIntosh, director of dentistry at Harlem Hospital and co-director of DentCare; Dr. Dennis Mitchell-Lewis, coordinator of DentCare for Harlem; and Willie Walker, chairman of Community Board 10M.