The UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry opened a 4,300-square-foot special-care dental clinic.
The Phil and Karen Hunke Special Care Clinic is the first academic setting in South Texas that will serve patients with intellectual, developmental, cognitive or physical disabilities, according to a Feb. 7 news release from the school.
The space has seven dental treatment rooms and will have the capability to serve up to 40 patients each day.
The school received a $2 million federal Health Resources and Services Administration grant; $2.3 million in support from the Oral Health Improvement Program of the Texas Department of State Health Services; and seed funding from local philanthropists, the Hunke family.
The clinic will accept Medicaid for qualified patients under the age of 21 and select dental insurances, the release said.