What if your child had toothache and no hope of help?
With this message, dental charity Bridge2Aid hopes to increase vital support this year, making it possible to provide access to safe emergency dental treatment for millions more people in need in East Africa.
Chief Executive Mark Topley commented: ‘With not even the most basic dental service available for the majority of people living in the rural areas of places like Tanzania, there are countless untreated dental problems. And more than half of people with toothache and no access to basic treatment will develop complications; sometimes, very sadly and shockingly, the complications lead to death.’
However, Bridge2Aid is making a big impact – by training local health professionals already based in villages to extract teeth and relieve pain. And it works – over the past 10 years Bridg2Aid has demonstrated success in both Tanzania and Rwanda, making access to treatment available to over 3 million people. Health professionals trained by Bridge2Aid have shown they can immediately address 98% of dental problems.
To find out how you can help people in pain today, please visit the team at stand D20, where you can be sure of a warm welcome.
Alternatively, Please visit www.bridge2aid.org/whatif to join with Bridge2Aid in its mission to make access to simple, safe, emergency dental treatment available to all.