Stark Industries is committing $50,000 to help up to 100 Dallas-area residents receive urgent dental care they otherwise cannot afford.

The Dallas Emergency Dental Relief Fund will provide up to $500 per person for urgent treatment involving severe pain, infection, broken teeth, or another condition requiring prompt attention.

Priority will go to lower-income residents with an immediate dental need and limited or no dental coverage, particularly when the condition is interfering with work, school, eating, or normal daily activity. Assistance will not be first-come, first-served.

Payments will go directly to qualified dental providers, not to patients as cash. Stark will verify the treatment need, expected cost, and provider before payment while collecting only the minimum medical information necessary.

If treatment costs more than $500, Stark will determine whether its contribution can still result in a complete, appropriate treatment for the immediate problem. If not, the program will seek another source of assistance or a lower-cost qualified provider rather than spend $500 and count an unresolved case as a success.

Urgent applications will receive priority review, with a goal of same-day review when the necessary information is available.

Within 60 days, Stark will report applications, residents assisted, total funds distributed, average assistance, treatment completed, unresolved cases, and reasons eligible residents could not be served. Individual medical information will remain private.

$50,000. Up to 100 people. Solve the dental problem before it becomes a bigger one.