We are glad to give back to the community. One of those efforts is to support recreation opportunities for disadvantaged children in Chicago. One seemingly unlikely way is to provide facilities for playing squash on the South Side. Squash is a game similar to racquetball. METROsquash director David Kay explained to Illinois Business Daily: It’s …
Our president featured in great profile
Dental Dreams President Dr. Sameera Hussain is featured in this great profile in the DuPage Policy Journal. Below are the first few paragraphs. For the entire article, go here. Driven by a deep yearning to serve families in underserved communities, Dr. Sameera Hussain launched Dental Dreams in 2001 in Aurora, Illinois. Since then, the company …
Amazing work in Nicaragua noted
Congrats to Oscar Gonzalez and his wife Rebekah for being featured in West Cook News recently about their incredible work helping people in Nicaragua. The couple, who reside in Chicago’s West Loop, founded the Obek Nicaragua Project to address material deficits in one of the region’s poorest countries. Oscar, who works as regional manager in …
America’s dental health falling behind
Let’s face it — America’s dental health is failing. While we are making progress providing dental care to children, wide swaths of adults lack dental insurance and thus forego all but emergency care. Senior citizens on Medicare are the most needy adult population, and they are among the most lacking in means. A recent post …
A story of hope in Nicaragua
Our regional manager for Michigan and Illinois, Oscar Gonzalez and his wife Rebekah, have been answering the dental-related prayers of others around the globe through a charity they set up. Specifically, the Gonzalezs have been helping families in Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in Central America. We’ll let Oscar describe their work: Every year …