Dental charity Dentaid joined forces with The Fishermen’s Mission and The Seafarers Hospital Society to provide dental care at the harbourside onboard the charity’s mobile dental unit.
The scheme helps fishermen who often struggle to access dental treatment and other medical care because they work long hours at sea. Seven patients received treatment including several who had been living with long-term dental pain.
Volunteer dentist Jane Lelean extracted 17 painful teeth and did 4 fillings along with scale and polishes, oral cancer checks and dental health advice.
'This was a very busy clinic for our volunteer dental team. The fact that they had to remove so many teeth shows that some fishermen are living in constant dental pain but still aren’t accessing dental care,' said Dentaid CEO Andy Evans. 'By taking our mobile dental unit to the harbour not only did we help them out of immediate pain, we also helped them re-engage with dentistry which is crucial to their general health and wellbeing.'
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