The overseas volunteering trips provide a unique opportunity for UK dental professionals to work alongside local dentists and deliver much-needed dental care to some of the most under-served and isolated communities. Volunteers treat up to 150 people a day in schools, orphanages, rural villages, churches, community centres and areas where people are experiencing poverty.
Dentaid the Dental Charity has a long history of providing sustainable dental care overseas. Since it was founded in 1996, Dentaid has worked in more than 70 countries in some of the most remote communities in the world.
Alongside annual volunteering trips Dentaid provides support for local dental professionals all year round by sending equipment, funding outreach programmes and supporting oral health education programmes. Oral hygiene education is at the heart of the organisations volunteering trips. This is especially important in areas where sugary drinks and chewing sugar cane are common, but the links to tooth decay are still poorly understood.
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