London’s leading oral health charity provides urgent dental care with new initiative to help capital’s child refugees and asylum seekers

This is part of the Dental Wellness Trust’s new ambitious programme, Livesmart Dental Care, which bridges the deeply worrying gap where very few NHS dental practices are able to take additional patients due to limited capacity, financial resource and thousands of dentists exiting the profession.

After Linda Greenwall (founder of Dental Wellness Trust) was contacted in March 2022 by Westminster Child Services with an urgent request to carry out routine oral health screenings on this group of vulnerable children who came to London with their families from loving homes during the pandemic, she and her experienced team of dental volunteers agreed immediately that an urgent (and self-funded) oral health intervention was required.