The school’s Oral Health Center for Disabilities is focused on patients with physical, cognitive and developmental challenges.
For Staten Island residents Donna Agoncillo and her son Christopher Agoncillo, having a dentist that understands how to treat people with special needs is essential. Christopher, 30, has autism, and when superstorm Sandy hit Staten Island in 2012, their options became more limited than ever. Now, the mother-son-duo take hourlong bus rides to and from Manhattan for Christopher’s dentist, a trip that she said is “well worth it.”
Christopher’s dentist is at New York University Dentistry’s Oral Health Center for Disabilities. The new clinic focuses on treating patients of all ages with physical, cognitive, and developmental challenges. Along with basic dental care, the center also provides endodontics, surgery, orthodontics, pediatric care, implants, periodontics, and prosthodontics, all provided by specially-trained students and professionals.
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