Community Dental Care

Founded by Drs. Vacharee and Andrew Peterson, Community Dental Care was one of the first private clinics in the Twin Cities that focused primarily on serving low-income patients from all walks of life. They immediately began to provide a complete array of preventative, restorative, routine, and emergency dental services to an ethnically diverse community of individuals, children, families, and the elderly – mostly people who are in poverty – anyone who needed care. In May 2008, Community Dental Care opened its second clinic location in Maplewood. In December 2012, a third location opened in Rochester in the RCTC Heintz Center. In January 2014, Community Dental Care launched its fourth location, in Robbinsdale. We opened up a second and larger clinic in Rochester as our fifth location in August 2017. Today, with 70 chairs and a staff of over 200 professionals, Community Dental Care provides dental services to nearly 50,000 patients every year. Community Dental Care is governed by an 11-member volunteer board of directors and a three-member advisory council in Rochester. About 65 percent of Community Dental Care’s staff members are of an ethnic minority and/or bilingual, with more than 25 languages represented.