One of the many services Mercy Ships provides when we are docked in a country, is the dental program. Mercy Ships is now providing free dental care for the people of Sierra Leone. Mondays and Thursdays are the screening days where people will line up to get a card to show up on a specific date.
The medical team is on hand to check people's teeth to assess what needs to be done-a cleaning a filling or pulling. During the first week of dental care the dentists pulled about 1100 teeth!
In the morning, the dental team begins with a time of praise and worship...even in the midst of poverty there are signs of beauty...
The dental team then gets to work cleaning, drilling and pulling...
For the seventy or so people who are waiting for their turn, Comfort and her translator give instructions on dental hygiene-how to brush, floss, what to eat, and not to eat...how to keep your teeth healthy.
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