Global Dental Relief

Global Dental Relief volunteers provide critical dental care to children — often the first care of their young lives.

Care is delivered in field clinics set up in local schools or municipal buildings. Volunteers form effective, hard-working teams treating and educating local school children over the course of 5 to 6 clinic days.

Patients are brought to clinics class by class from local schools. During their visit, children are taught how to brush, the basics of good nutrition, and receive dental work to restore healthy teeth and smiles.

Once dental health is restored, children return to the clinic every two years to ensure a childhood of healthy smiles.

Clinics host up to five dentists and two hygienists. Ten additional general volunteers provide clinic support, working as chairside assistants, sterilizing, keeping records or educating children.

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