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The Shelby Star More than two dozen smiles got a free upgrade Saturday in Shelby thanks to North Carolina Baptists on Mission s Mobile Dental Ministry. The rolling dental clinic, staffed by dentists, assistants and hygienists from multiple providers in Gaston and Cleveland counties, set up shop for the second year in a row in the parking lot of Pleasant City Church on County Home Road. It s a one day effort designed to extend much needed, and sometimes long deferred, dental care to Cleveland County s uninsured, poor and migrant populations. Shelby s Ashley Hendrick was among some 30 patients Saturday who stepped aboard the generator powered bus and into the mobile dentist s chair. She said dental insurance is too expensive to squeeze into her monthly budget but jumped at the chance to get a trio of fillings completed Saturday that will hopefully head off more expensive, or painful, procedures down the road. ....