Texas prison officials say there are plans for a new denture program that will be even...
FILE — David Ford poses for a photograph with his dentures during an interview with the Houston Chronicle at Huntsville Unit on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, in Huntsville.
For months, both the corrections agency and its main healthcare provider – the University of Texas Medical Branch – declined to give any additional details as to what that might entail. Finally, this year, prison spokesman Robert Hurst confirmed that prison health providers are now purchasing traditional dentures from a supplier in Florida – and ultimately the goal is to make them available to anyone nearing release.
“There’s this misunderstanding that dentures are the only way to be able to process food,” Dr. Owen Murray, the University of Texas-Medical Branch’s vice president of offender services, told the Chronicle in 2018. “And our ability to provide that mechanically blended diet is actually a better solution than the mastication and chewing process.
But then in summer 2022, prisoners began writing worried letters, saying they’d heard rumors that the 3D-denture program had been shut down completely. In August, a prison spokeswoman confirmed their suspicions. In the meantime Texas Tech – which provides medical care for about one-third of the state’s prisons –lab. Though officials discussed the new lab at a healthcare committee meeting in September, Texas Tech spokespeople did not respond to a request for further comment, and did not answer questions about the new program’s location or planned capacity.
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