RAM's New Mobile Digital Denture Lab Seeks Technician Volunteers

The Remote Area Medical® Volunteer Corps—better known as RAM—has come a long way since it began offering free dental care for underserved patients in 1992. “For our first event in Tennessee, we loaded one heavy dental chair into the back of a pickup truck,” says Eric Hutchinson, Chief Communications Officer at the non-profit, which also provides free medical and vision care. “Today, we host dozens of mobile pop-up medical clinics a year, including several dental-only events in our tractor trailer equipped with three dental chairs. In total, we’ve provided cleanings, extractions and composite fillings to hundreds of thousands of patients in 42 states.”

Last year, RAM added an exciting high-tech service to its dental clinics: same- and next-day digitally fabricated dentures via a state-of-the-art Mobile Digital Denture Lab, RAM’s first foray into digital dentistry. While it had been offering free traditional dentures...