Hygiene Tribune Middle East & Africa No. 1, 2020
Dentaid – improving the world’s oral health
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Published in Dubai
Dentaid – improving the
world’s oral health
January-February 2020 | No. 1, Vol. 10
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Thousands of rural Kenyans have been helped out
of poor oral health with treatment and preventive
education by volunteers from dental charity Dentaid.
Trustee, Sally Reading, describes the charity’s mission
and how it has been helped by the donation of
an ultrasonic scaler from Dentsply Sirona.
By Dentsply Sirona
In Kenya the dentist to population
ratio is 1:40,000, while the World
Health Organisation recommends a
ratio of 1:7,500. The average monthly
income in rural Kenya is around £75,
while the average cost of an extraction is £5.
Much of the dental equipment available in some rural areas is aging and
difficult to service because of a lack
of both skilled engineers and spare
parts. This situation means there’s
a huge need for dental volunteering
and support.
Having regularly fundraised for
Dentaid since 2001, I was invited to
travel to Kenya to help deliver a den-
tal chair and ART Kit for one of their
projects. It was a dream of mine, so I
jumped at the chance.
I’m now the Kenyan Team Leader
for Dentaid, which involves providing emergency and routine dental
treatment, as well as delivering vital
equipment and materials.
Our mission
Since my first trip in 2010 I’ve been
to Kenya on six occasions. On each
trip the number in my team has increased and this year was the biggest
one yet, with 10 people on the team.
Most of our missions have been primarily focussed on extractions and
getting people out of dental pain,
but I’ve also seen many patients
with either rampant caries or severe
periodontal disease. Therefore, we
are now also turning our focus towards more preventive treatments
and long-term oral health education.
Support from Dentsply
Sirona
The recent donation of a portable
Cavitron® Select ultrasonic scaler
from Dentsply Sirona was extremely
timely, and it has made a significant
difference by completely transforming the amount of work the team has
been able to do.
Many patients come to us with
bleeding gums or in desperate need
of basic teeth cleaning, but because
previously we were limited to hand
scalers, we weren’t able to help as
many sufferers as we would have
liked.
Change is coming
Now things are really changing. In
2018 we only managed to carry out
four scaling treatments due to time
limitations and equipment. This
year, with a larger team and the use
of the Cavitron we were able to complete 322.
It has opened up the opportunity to
help so many more sufferers of gum
disease who otherwise would simply
go without treatment and we can
also be more preventive in the lim-
ited time we have.
Using trusted equipment
I was absolutely delighted when
Dentsply Sirona donated the Cavitron Select to the team as it was ideal
for our needs. I was trained on the
Cavitron, I knew how to use it and
was familiar with all the benefits it
brings. Being portable it makes life
much easier, especially when I am
working in outreach clinics in rural
areas.
I routinely use the Cavitron for most
of my work. The range of different
inserts gives great versatility and it’s
extremely efficient. It’s a contrast to
using hand scalers, which can make
treatment very time-consuming, especially when working on tenacious
deposits.
More comfort
My patients find treatment with the
Cavitron more comfortable too. It
has power and water flow controls
which I can set according to the
patient’s needs and they don’t experience too much sensitivity. This
encourages patients to return for
treatment, which in turn helps with
our preventive message.
A fundraising mission
My dream is to expand Dentaid’s
work even further and increase
visits to twice a year and in more
areas. With this in mind I’m now doing more fundraising, including a
12,000ft skydive with my daughter.
I also dream about building a dental
clinic in Kenya one day. That dream
is getting closer with a lot of hard
work, support from Dentsply Sirona
and donations such as the Cavitron
Select, which is now staying out in
Kenya to treat thousands more patients all year round.
To find out more about the Dentsply
Sirona extensive range of preventive
solutions please visit dentsplysirona.
com/preventive
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Sally Reading
Sally qualified as a Dental Therapist
in 2014 and is Managing Director of
Sally’s Smiles in Swansea.
Dentaid
Dentaid supports dentists around
the world by providing equipment,
HYGIENE TRIBUNE
Dental Tribune Middle East & Africa Edition | 1/2020
running oral health programmes
and sending teams of volunteer dental professionals to help them reach
and treat more patients. Dentaid
helps vulnerable adults and children suffering with dental pain with
routine and emergency dental treatments in Kenya and other places
around the world including the UK.
For more information about Dentaid, visit dentaid.org. |
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