Dentaid’s fifth mobile dental unit was used to provide emergency dental care and oral health advice for people experiencing homelessness in Winchester.
Manned by volunteers, the unit visited Trinity Winchester and eight patients received treatment, so they can be free from dental pain this Christmas.
The vehicle will be used by the charity for its clinics across the UK. In addition to rough sleepers and those who are vulnerably housed, the mobile dental surgery will be used to provide care for families experiencing poverty, victims of domestic violence, fishing communities, refugees and asylum seekers and head and neck cancer patients.
Commenting on the charities’ work, a patient said, “100 per cent helpful and very important for everyone – tooth pain is the worst, especially if it can’t be dealt with!
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