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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 means to be a patient in a dental training course? The dentists are licensed practitioners, not students, and the first step is a $39 exam. Here is what to expect.

Without dental insurance, the cost of implants can be hard to plan for. Here are your realistic options in North Carolina, including how implant care works at Local Start Dental 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, your gift helps fund care: a procedure, a denture fitted, an implant placed. Here's how a nonprofit dental clinic puts donations to work for patients in 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 can make implant care more 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 for North Carolina dental professionals, with live patient training and hands-on dental implant programs for beginning through advanced practitioners.

Local Start Dental celebrates a major milestone: expanding services to include general dentistry alongside tooth replacement. Since 2021, we have served 3,458 patients and provided $14.8 million in donated care, including $3.97 million in services in 2025 alone.