Dental Clinic

This hospital-based pediatric dental clinic provides comprehensive care for infants, children and young adolescents with significant medical and/or developmental problems.

The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile® Fast Facts:

• 40-foot, state-of-the-art, fully equipped dental clinic on wheels with its own dentist, dental hygienist and dental assistants
• Provides dental care to underserved children without a dental home. (This mobile clinic does not treat children that are active patients of a dental practice.)
• Visits elementary schools and summer programs in Northwest, Central and Southeast Arkansas.
• Offers full service dental care including exams, X-rays, sealants, restorations (fillings), pediatric crowns, pulpotomies (baby tooth root canals), extractions and other preventative and restorative dental care.
• Operated by Arkansas Children's Hospital Dental Outreach.

Did you know?

• In Arkansas, 27% of our children have untreated dental decay.
• 57% of Arkansas' children have some kind of dental cavities experience.
  Tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease today, five times more common than asthma.
• The Ronald McDonald Care Mobiles in Arkansas are the 36th and 39th units to bring care and hope to underserved children around the world.

For more information contact:

Ronald McDonald Care Mobile® c/o Arkansas Children's Hospital
Dental Outreach
1 Children's Way, Slot 107
Little Rock, AR 72202
(501) 364-4291 

Appointments:

(501) 364-1816
Fax: (501) 364-6800

Care Provided:

    • Comprehensive pediatric dental care for infants, children and young adolescents with significant medical and/or developmental problems
    • Ronald McDonald Care Mobile ® - Operated by ACH Dental Outreach and provides comprehensive dental care to children at no cost to their families; the Dental Outreach program currently serves elementary schools in central and northwest Arkansas. Appointments are coordinated with the child's elementary school nurse

Location:

ACH Main Hospital, 1st Floor
(This clinic to move to new South Wing in Summer of 2012.)
Map

Director, Dental Services:

James Koonce, DDS, MSD
(501) 364-1816

Note: This clinic is available to your child by physician referral. Talk with your child's physician and tell him/her you would like to be referred to ACH. Have the doctor contact the Arkansas Children's Hospital Appointment Center to make a referral at 501-364-4000. If your child does not have a regular physician, please call 501-364-4000, option 1 and we will be happy to recommend one in your area.