ABOUT THE MARYLAND FOUNDATION OF DENTISTRY

The MFD program would not successful without our Patient Care Coordinators (PCCs) that facilitate the care and treatment of MFD patients. The PCCs follow patients from the day a potential patient is interviewed to the completion of a patient's dental treatment. The PCC has been trained to deal with a variety of situations and enables treatment to be successfully completed. The PCC is the person the patient and dentist contacts with questions or concerns.

 To be eligible you must: 

• Apply and be accepted into the program. 
• You must be a Maryland adult (18+years) with an intellectual, physical, and/or developmental disabilities and be unable to pay for your dental care.  
• Those with private dental insurance are not eligible for this program.  
• All dental treatment and labs are provided at no cost to you in a private dental office. 
• All patients admitted into the program must have transportation to the dental office and must keep all appointments.  
• We are not emergency services.
• If you are accepted into the program, services are once in a lifetime, so after completion of treatment, you cannot apply again. 
• Our program is unable to provide sedation services.

Dentists throughout the state of Maryland have volunteered to facilitate pro bono dental care to Maryland adults with intellectual, physical, and/or developmental disabilities who are unable to pay for their dental care. 

Volunteer dentists are not paid for any of the services provided to the program. The dentists who volunteer for the MFD  program are motivated by a desire to give something back to the community that supports their practice. For many dentists, the opportunity to get to know the referred patient and feel that they have made a significant and personal contribution is the greatest reward of all.

The laboratories that donate their services are often motivated by a desire to support the dental community in its' efforts and to perform a valuable civic duty.  Some laboratories feel an added reward in strengthening a bond with a dentist by helping on a donated case. Other times, a MFD case may be an opportunity for a laboratory to show its work to a new dentist. 

The PCC works with the treating dentist to find laboratories that will provide free or discounted services. Dentsply provides all replacement teeth to the program without charge to those laboratories offering a fifty percent discount or greater to the MFD. The PCC also arranges all referrals to needed specialists.

When a patient’s treatment is completed, the dentist completes and returns a value of treatment card that describes the value of the services performed. The MFD services are once in a lifetime, so after completion of treatment, you cannot apply again.