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Medical team looks after 650 persons; delivers $50M in dental care
Dentists tending to patients during the five- day dental outreach on the Corentyne last week
A medical team comprising 27 dentists from Michigan and Texas recently conducted a dental mission in the Berbice area. The programme was arranged and organised by the Asociation of Bible Churches along the Berbice district and its aim was to provide free dental health care for people of Crabwood Creek and surrounding communities.
The outreach was held from Sunday to Thursday last at the Crabwood Creek Bible Church on the Corentyne.
According to President of the Association of Bible Churches, Dr Andy Giwarnauth, the project has been going on for nine years in Berbice during which other medical teams visited the area.
Dr Giwarnauth stated that the response by Berbicians was phenomenal. Some 650 persons received dental care worth more than $50M. Cleaning, extraction, restorative works, filling and root canal works were a few of the operations that were performed on patients.
According to Dr Giwarnauth, the cost for a root canal here runs between $30,000 and $50,000 so a lot of Berbicians were relieved of the burden of high prices attached to that dental operation.
The team will be coming again next year, this time to Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice.
According to Dr Giwarnauth, an optometry medical team will be hosted in August and the visitors will be stationed in Bath Settlement.
The head of the mission was Dr Scott Hodges who is an endodontist; he specialises in root canals.
The team stated that its members have had to redo a lot of work done by the local dentists on patients.
(Leon Suseran)
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