{"id":259793,"date":"2026-05-05T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:00:08","slug":"florida-dental-association-to-offer-free-dental-care-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259793\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Dental Association to offer free dental care in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 1,800 Floridians are expected to recieve dental care at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Dental Association Foundation (FDA Foundation) announced that its annual Florida Mission of Mercy event will be coming to the First Coast in May.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/floridadental.org\/foundation\/programs\/mission-of-mercy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">describes the event<\/a> as a way for an estimated 1,800 Floridians to receive &#8220;relief from the pain and infection of untreated dental disease\u00a0\u2014 at no cost to the patients.&#8221; In 2025, the event was held in Daytona Beach, where the foundation says that more than 1,500 patients recieved care valued at around $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event is said to include a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flamom.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Veteran&#8217;s First<\/a> initiative, which allows local veterans to pre-register and recieve priority care.<\/p>\n<p>The event is scheduled at the Prime Osborn Convention Center on Friday, May 15, and Saturday, May 16. The event is on a first-come, first-served basis, so patients are encouraged to arrive early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An estimated 1,800 Floridians are expected to recieve dental care at no cost. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-259793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}