Fourth Morocco mission of mercy

Chris set off on September 29, 2013 for seven hard, gruelling, yet fulfilling days. The destination: a remote school in a fishing village, with 650 children and a high intake of honey, sweet mint tea and no access to a dental health service that contributes to extreme dental decay and pain.

Chris Branfield is usually found treating patients in his comfortable practice in Cottingham, Hull, surrounded by modern-day dental equipment, running water and fabulous support team. Everything he could ever need.

Then something out of the ordinary changed his life, his career, his purpose in life.

In September 2010, he found himself taking part in something completely alien, different, uncomfortable, treating 150 Moroccan children. As well as seeing over 200 kids in El Jebah for extractions and fillings, this year the Dental Mavericks took on an additional project at Merchekala up in the Rif Mountains.  This was the first time these children had been seen by a dentist and this was apparent in the number of bad teeth.   The Mavericks saw and over 260 kids in this tiny village, ridding them of the misery of daily dental pain.