{"id":316007,"date":"2026-05-31T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316007\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:56:08","slug":"texas-mission-of-mercy-provides-free-dental-care-at-our-lady-of-the-lake-university-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316007\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Mission of Mercy provides free dental care at Our Lady of the Lake University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Smiles and relief were in abundance on San Antonio\u2019s West Side as the Texas Mission of Mercy provided free dental care at Our Lady of the Lake University.<\/p>\n<p>Dental professionals from across San Antonio participated in the clinic, including staff from Advanced Smile Care on Lockhill Selma. Patients formed long lines after pre-registering online, and walk-ups were also welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic offered a range of services, including cleanings, fillings, extractions, dentures, partials and more \u2014 all at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Hill, director of Texas Mission of Mercy, said access to basic dental care can help reduce strain on hospitals. \u201cWhether you have insurance or not, it&#8217;s one of the main causes of our emergency room visits. And we see a lot of emergency room visits that had they just had cleanings and\/or the teeth removed, they wouldn&#8217;t be seen in our local hospitals,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n<p>Free clinics like this are held four times a year throughout Texas. For information on the next clinic, viewers were encouraged to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmominc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Mission of Mercy website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Smiles and relief were in abundance on San Antonio\u2019s West Side as the Texas Mission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-316007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}