'Cleveland Idols' donate time and services to free clinic

The Cleveland Idols is a group of dentists/hygienists/auxiliaries who united their efforts at The Free Clinic of Greater Cleveland to save masses of silent sufferers of the Cleveland community during the darkest hour after last year’s recession – a pool of 8,000 patients.

The Free Clinic-Dental Department, with its new director, Dr. S. Ridha (a Westlaker), opened the clinic’s potential to the providers helping more patients under the lines of: "A day of action worth months of hoping," "Live and let live" and "Will vs. wish," working a bigger dental safety net. In addition, the clinic will offer a wider range of dental services: full mouth x-ray, complete exam, cleaning, deep scaling, fillings, extractions, emergency care, referrals and more.

All of this is made possible because of the time and services donated (10,500 procedures in one year).

Cleveland identifies those “Difference Makers” in the below list including Northeast Ohio dental institutes, who are all like a local wealth of precious raw material awaiting discovery.   

The community of Greater Cleveland should take note of what these “idols” have done; they are role models and our region is richer because of them.

 

 Dentists:                                        Hygienists:                                      Institutes

   - John Ball                                  - Michele Koler                             Case Dental School

   - Ed Hadaway                             - Rachel East                                 Tri-C- Hygiene

   - Kent Lamoreux                         - Margaret Harris                          Lorain CC- Hygiene

   - Richard Bis                               - Chris Immormino                       CIDMA

   - Doug Leavitt                             - Irina Novopoltseva                        

   - Jerry Faist                                  - Laura Scott

   - Ed Jimenez

    - Linda Kerata                             Auxiliaries:

    - Mark Kriwinsky                         Rita Dezso –EFDA

    - Rich Rzepka                              Ann Rennette –X-ray tech.

    - Heinz Mikota                             Barsha Gurung -DA

    - Richard DePaul                          Chuck Wilson- Tech

    - Harvey Silverman                      Roger Antos – Tech

    - Don Patacca                             

    - Jimmy Kayastha                     

    - Everet Wu                               Dental Labs:

     - Luis Pires                                RayWood Lab  

     - Elena Furman                          Dental Ceramics

     - Ankur Gupta                          

     -Alan Gray                                Dental Supplier:

                                                       Patterson Dental

 Case Faculty:

  -  Jim Lalumandier

  - Shelly Fiewell

 -  Fady faddoul

  - Narayanan Sreenivasan

  - Wisam Raw