In celebration of National Children's Dental Health Month, the South Florida Community College Dental Clinic will provide free preventive health care to children ages 3-6 each Thursday in February. ...more

January 24, 2009

A $5.3 million grant awarded to the University of Florida College of Dentistry will target cancer prevention for low-income men across the state, including those in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 8, 2008

There are excellent discount dentists out there - just be sure to do your homework. ...more

November 6, 2008

In A 4-1 vote Tuesday, the Highlands County commissioners awarded nine grants for health care totaling more than $360,000 as recommended by the Highlands County Hospital District Board. ...more

October 19, 2008

It's a tight ship these days down at the Hernando County Health Department's Spring Hill clinic. ...more

July 4, 2008

The Hernando County Health Department will be able to serve at least 50 percent more clients in a new building set to open in the next few years, its administrator says. ...more

July 3, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Although the Tooth Fairy hasn't yet visited 6-year-old Ramon Castellano of Lake Placid, he was one of the first patients at the new Children's Dental Care of Highlands. The new 1,200-square-foot dental clinic where Ramon received care is located at the Lake Placid Health Department building, at 106 Main Ave. Any of the county's 15,000 children who are uninsured and Medicaid-eligible pay based on a sliding scale, which starts at no charge, said Dr. Paula Thaqi, director of the Highlands County Health Department. ...more

February 9, 2008

AVON PARK — Kelli Collier drove one and a half hours to have her teeth polished Wednesday morning, but it was no ordinary trip to the dentist office. Collier, of Port Charlotte, is a student in South Florida Community College's dental hygiene program, and, like most of her peers, she travels across the state for the program. Becky Sroda, director of dental education at SFCC, said she has received calls from interested students in Ukraine and Taiwan, but very few students are from Highlands County. ...more

January 28, 2008

Some people talk about "giving back to the community," but Dr. Vincent Monticciolo puts his dentistry where his mouth is. Monticciolo will hold his eighth annual "Dentistry from the Heart" event at his practice, Monticciolo Sedation Dentistry, 4530 Grand Boulevard, New Port Richey, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8. ...more

January 26, 2008