Dr. Charles Harris and the dedicated staff of his Gloucester dental practice are again organizing a massive effort to offer free dental services to as many people as possible in a single day.

The third annual free Mission of Mercy dental clinic, sponsored by Harris and the Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic, with assistance from the Virginia Dental Association in Richmond, will be offered from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25, at Gloucester High School.

Project coordinator Kelly Cooper of Harris’s office is pulling together a team of dental professionals from Gloucester and across the state to spend the day taking x-rays, performing extractions, filling and cleaning teeth, and providing other services as needed. In addition to general dentistry practitioners, there will be oral surgeons and pediatric dentists on hand.

If patients have problems that can’t be handled on-site, Harris said they will be referred to the dental school at Virginia Commonwealth University i...