Dental care for homeless and social risk spreading

It is no longer only in Bisserne in Copenhagen that homeless people can get their teeth sorted. Aalborg, Arhus, Odense and Aarhus have now also been awarded money for dental treatment for the social risk. At the same time, Copenhagen can look forward to another clinic.

- It's fantastic that socially vulnerable in several places in the country may now subordinate their teeth. Homelessness is not a special phenomenon in Copenhagen. Quite the contrary. There are more and more homeless people in other major Danish cities. And it's incredibly gratifying that dental care is so well represented in spending for social risk, says dentist Peter Østergaard, who is chairman of Bisserne who operates a dental clinic in the men's home in Copenhagen.

Although Joy is also great in Randers, Aalborg and Odense, the three cities simultaneously disappointing that they have been denied their applications for the operation of dental clinics.

- It is outrageous that we do not have money to operate the clinic. This might seem foolish to give us money to establish a clinic and also not sure that we can actually operate the clinic, says dentist Furdal Reiff, who is one of those most responsible for the project in Odense. Dentist Majbritt Jensen of the project in Aalborg Municipality supports it.

The dedicated dentists are working now to secure funds for the operation, so dental care to homeless people can also become a reality in Arhus, Aalborg and Odense.