APPLE TREE DENTAL history

In 1995, Apple Tree helped launch Carolina's Mobile Dentistry to serve nursing facility residents in Charlotte, North Carolina, starting Apple Tree's first sister program.

In 1997, community leaders from the rural Red River Valley area in northwestern Minnesota asked Apple Tree to help solve one of Minnesota’s worst dental access problems, resulting in the establishment of the Hawley Center.

In 1999, Apple Tree helped launch Operation Smile in Sicily Island, Louisiana to serve Head Start preschoolers and institutionalized elders on-site, becoming Apple Tree’s second sister program.

In 2004, Apple Tree opened the Madelia Center in the local hospital to help meet dental access needs among a low-income Hispanic population in southwestern Minnesota.

In 2008, two geriatricians from the Mayo Clinic were desperately seeking on-site dental care for their nursing facility residents, resulting in the Rochester Center.

In 2009, Apple Tree opened the Fergus Falls Center to help provide dental services and fill longstanding gaps in the region.

It later expanded to a brick-and-mortar clinic in 2013.

In 2014, Apple Tree opened the Mounds View Center to expand services to nearly a thousand patients on waiting lists, and to create a new source of advanced dental services for people needing IV sedation services in the Twin Cities.

In 2015, Apple Tree opened the San Mateo Center in California, creating a dental program to meet growing gaps in the availability of geriatric and special care dentistry services in the area.

In 2016, Apple Tree opened the Little Falls Outreach Clinic co-located within the Family Medical Center on the St Gabriel’s Hospital campus in Little Falls, Minnesota.

In 2017, Apple Tree transitioned the management of the san Mateo and Sonrisas Centers to local leaders.

Since November 2018 Dr Cerise Harriss has taken over the business and the practice has shone even brighter.

In 2019, Apple Tree pediatric specialist Doctor Nathaniel Cook performed Apple Tree’s first in-office general anesthesia case in collaboration with a dental anesthesiologist, at the Mounds View Center for Dental Health.

In 2020, in the Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont, Apple Tree opened the Fairmont Center for Dental Health with mobile equipment.

In April 2021, the Fairmont Center moved into a refurbished section of the same building and opened with a full team.