The NKF is working with Tzu Chi Foundation to provide the services at the Tzu Chi Free Health Screening and Medical Clinic in Jurong West.
They cover consultations, fillings, extractions, scaling and denture-making.
It is hoped the free dental services will improve the dental condition of older kidney patients who sometimes have trouble eating.
About half of the NKF's kidney patients aged 60 and above suffer from malnutrition.
Chairman of the NKF, Mr Gerard Ee said: "... we realise that with our ageing population, our patients are older and some of them can't afford to deal with their dentures, their fillings and things like that... for now... the Tzu Chi foundation is able to provide the free dental for our patients."
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