Dentist Sam Minagawa, left, and assistant Lorinda Sheldon, perform dental work for a patient at the 2023 free dental clinic in Moses Lake. While past clinics have relied on local volunteers, this year’s will include dentists and support staff from the University of Washington and a school in the Tri-Cities, making for more providers than the church has ever brought in in the past.
July 21, 2025
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Free dental clinic coming again to Moses Lake
MOSES LAKE — A free dental clinic next month will fill a need that often goes overlooked. “The thing that everybody (wants) is dentistry, because that’s the thing they can’t access,” said Linda Morgan, who organizes the clinic every year for the Moses Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church. “A lot of dentists will not accept Medicaid. It’s very, very hard to get in. That’s why dentistry is so needed.”