Successful Tanzanian mission

The training, which was organised by charity Bridge2Aid, and supported by dental treatment provider, mydentist, will have a lasting impact on locals in remote parts of Tanzania.

As part of the mission, volunteers from the UK – including mydentist’s very own Laura-Anne Johnston and Yasmin Mehta – spent two weeks in the East African country, where they were tasked with training rural clinical officers to safely extract teeth.

Laura-Anne explained the scale of the task at hand: “I was made aware of the problems that the country has and how important this training would be to the local community, as many people cannot afford to have dental treatment and therefore will put up with chronic pain for months and even years.”

Thirty year old Ibrahim Mtama was one of the officers trained by the 10 strong team. He serves a rural community at the Mtimbwani Dispensary, where people were once forced to travel more than two hours to the district hospital if they required treatment.