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No dental insurance? Local Start Dental in Durham offers sliding scale fees based on household income, payment plans through several lenders, and accepts NC Medicaid. Here is how the options work.

Wondering what it actually means to be a patient in a dental training course? The dentists are licensed practitioners, not students. The crown is included. Bone grafting is included. The first step is a $39 exam. Here's what to expect.

Dental implants can cost $3,000 to $6,000 or more in North Carolina. Without insurance, those numbers end the conversation. Here are your realistic options, including a sliding scale implant program in Durham.

Most dental professionals entered this field to help people. Volunteering at Local Start Dental puts your skills directly in service of patients who have no other option. Here's how assistants, hygienists, GPs, and specialists can get involved.

When you donate to Local Start Dental, the money doesn't sit in an operating fund. It becomes a procedure, a denture fitted, an implant placed. Here's how a nonprofit dental clinic turns every dollar into care for patients across North Carolina.

Local Start Dental does more than provide care to people who can't afford it. Through SIDE, the Southeast Institute for Dental Education, we train practicing dentists from across the country. Here's how the service-and-training model works.

Four years ago, Local Start Dental opened a single clinic in Durham. Today, we've delivered $15.8 million in donated dentistry to 3,570 patients across 78 of North Carolina's 100 counties. Here's how a single clinic became a statewide institution.

Discounted dental implants don't mean settling for less. Learn how dental schools, provider models, and nonprofit clinics like Local Start Dental in Durham, NC make specialist-level implant care affordable — and which shortcuts to avoid when cost is a factor.

Local Start Dental partners with SIDE in Durham, NC to offer dentist continuing education courses North Carolina dental professionals can trust, with live patient training, expert instructors, and ADA CERP-recognized dental implant programs for every skill level.

Local Start Dental celebrates a major milestone: expanding services to include general dentistry alongside tooth replacement. With 3,458 patients served and $14.8 million in donated care since 2021, we're transforming lives across North Carolina. In 2025 alone, we've provided $3.97 million in services through our unique training model that educates dentists while delivering exceptional care.