Continuing on our Off Ship Sites tour, this blog will focus on the Dental Clinic. According to the World Health Organization, there are about 18 dentists in Togo for a population of 6 million people (that is about one dentist for every 333 333 persons). Where many of the nation live on about $1.25 per day. The opportunities for most people to go to a dentist is almost zero.
The goal of the Dental Program is to reduce the incidence of dental disease by providing dental education and treatments such as restorations, extractions, and cleaning. In our 2010 field service in Togo over 6 000 people received dental services with almost 13 000 procedures being performed.
The Dental Clinic occupies the top two levels of a government building, which the government allows us to use at no cost.
A sign advertising the free services.
Sieh, Dental Team Coordinator, is explaining to the group the basic over all view of the dental program and some of the unique challenges they have faced.
Comfort and her translator are explaining to the waiting patients how to properly care for their teeth.
Joyce registers all the patients.
All the dental instruments and supplies.
Robbie, one of the dental hygienists, cleans a patients teeth.
Simon, a dentist, taking care of a patient.
Abdulai helps sterilize the instruments.
In a few weeks, the Dental Team will also embark on a mission of "Extreme Dentistry". The team will go for a few days to two different sites-one of the local prisons and a refuge camp with displaced person from the Ivory Coast. They will face many challenges, please keep them in your prayers.
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