Saturday, July 23, 2016

Remote Area Medical comes to Wise Fairgrounds

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Jerry Hughes from Coeburn, Virginia gets digital xrays taken of his mouth by VCU Dental student Ashley Conners during the Remote Area Medical clinic at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia.  Missions of Mercy organizes the Dental area with Virginia Dental Association.

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, left, Stan Brock, Remote Area Medical, listens to Teresa Gardner, Executive Director Health Wagon, talk about the current RAM Clinic at the Wise County Fairgrounds on Friday, July 22, 2016.

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Dr. Graham Gardner, Orthodontist, left, listens as his daughter, Ava, talks about her first experience at the Remote Area Medical Clinic on Friday in Wise, Virginia.  Dr. Gardner has been working the clinic for over 10 years and brought his daughter to see first hand what the Missions of Mercy does and how there is a dental need right here in Virginia.

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Dr. Elizabeth Reynolds, DDS., Richmond, Virginia, looks into the mouth of 21 year old Miriam-Brooke Upchurch from Big Stone Gap, Virginia.  Upchurch was getting teeth pulled at the Missions of Mercy Dental area of the Remote Area Medical at the Wise Fairground in Wise, Virginia.  Dr. Reynolds brought her daughter Anne Randall Berkeyheiser, center, to the clinic to help out this weekend.

Photo Earl Neikirk/Bristol Herald Courier/HeraldCourier.com

http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/volunteers-to-help-thousands-receive-free-care-at-th-ram/article_2f5ebdda-e019-5b20-ba4a-85bb280aa2a5.html

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