Palo Alto College’s Dental Hygiene Clinic opens its doors to the community for the Spring 2025 semester, providing dental hygiene care services through the faculty supervised- student clinic. Located within the Rio Grande Building (41), the clinic is fully operational and fully equipped to provide quality care for all patients.

The Palo Alto College Dental Hygiene Clinic provides low-cost to no-cost dental hygiene services to all community members, five years old and up. The clinic houses thirty dental treatment rooms with state-of-the-art equipment, including all digital X-ray equipment, a two-dimensional pastoral machine, traditional X-ray units, and portable X-ray units. Coming soon is a Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) scanner, providing advanced three-dimensional imaging. The clinic provides the community with the gold standard of care for all sterilization and infection control processes. These amenities ensure that our patients receive the highest quality of comprehensive dental hygiene care.

Diane Wilson, the Executive Director of the Dental Hygiene Program, shares that the projected impact of this educational partnership on the local community is providing much-needed access to care that will give back to the community approximately $1 million in dental hygiene services over the next three years. Dental Hygiene care is the first line of healthcare that can guide the patient to much better overall health. Providing the best dental hygiene care to the community is the primary goal of this education facility.

In recent anonymous surveys from our patients, they have shared:

“Absolutely the most comprehensive medical history/medication review I have EVER had, and that includes oncology—extremely thorough dental exam.”

“The faculty, as well as (the student practitioner), were all amazing, thorough, and professional. I felt so thankful that I accepted (the student practitioner’s) invitation to be her patient! She was so gentle and careful… AWESOME!”

The expanded clinic sessions offer more opportunities for our community members to receive the care they need while allowing dental hygiene students to gain valuable practical learning experiences, all under the supervision of licensed faculty.

WHERE:

Palo Alto College

Rio Grande Building 41, Suite 139

1400 W. Villaret Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78224

Phone: 210-486-3327