Dental Menu
Olmekenyu Dental Clinics 2008
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| During this year's mission, with the capable assistance of local dentist, Dr. Daniel and his intern Gilbert, Dr. Williams was able to do more instruction and management of the mission than in previous years. Here Penny expands her skills by assisting Charity in ultrasonic scaling of teeth. |
2008 saw our seventh mission team for dentistry at Olmekenyu. Dr. Williams and his wife, Sheila, lead the dental core that consisted of Charity Ngambwa, RDH. and many lay team members with no formal dental training but very trainable hearts. |
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| Gilbert, an intern from Nairobi Dental College, is assisted by Charity Ngambwa, a Kenyan native who practices in Florida as a dental hygienist. |
Charity was an able dental assistant on the mission. She had previously been a dental assistant before becoming a dental hygienist. |
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| As a third year dental student in a practical internship, Gilbert had to perform a combination of extractions, fillings, and scalings that totaled 500 during his time with Dr. Daniel. He achieved most of his goal in the two weeks working with KMO. |
Jerry and Penny love assisting Charity. Tyler, Sheila and Pam look on as they take a well-earned break from the pharmacy / medical clinics work. |
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| With our system for seeing as many patients as possible in the short time we were in Olmekenyu, Dr. Daniel would often numb patients and feed them into the dental chairs where Gilbert and Dr. Williams would do extractions or fillings. |
Gilberts expertise in achieving anesthesia and extracting teeth increased over the period of time we worked together. There is nothing like experience to make a difference. |
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| Britney Compton was a workhorse in sterilization, making the most with the setup we had. She kept the instruments ready for use all day long. |
Nursing student, Crystal, who was also our former nurse Lillian's sister, helped in the dental clinics our first day in Olmekenyu. |
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| Molly loved dental assisting...from a nurses perspective. She got to see a whole different side of medicine. |
Charity and Molly looking to see why the water stopped on the scaler...the tank needed to be refilled with water. |
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| Dr Williams filling teeth in Olmekenyu. With so few dentists on the trip, fillings are a luxury and do not typically take precedence over extractions to remove infections and abscesses. |
Charity was a very accomplished dental assistant and could easily assist in the restorative procedures we completed in Olmekenyu on the hospital staff and teachers from the various schools. |
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| Jerry and Dr. Daniel worked well together. The yellow rain coated fellow was a fine translator for our group this year in addition to being a photo hound! |
Gilbert worked to do some fillings on the school teachers from the town. |
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| An Olmekenyu mother has a cleft palate baby that needed help in a serious way. |
A double cleft lip and palate is one of the most serious of all facial genetic deformities. |
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| Fortunately Sheila has brought a backpack from Smile Train, a charitable oral surgical group that raises funds and performs free surgical correction of cleft lip and palate deformities in children all over the world. In that back pack was a brochure that explained the work that Smile Train does and has several before and after photos of babies successfully treated for their cleft palates. |
In the photo above and to the left, Charity is explaining to the baby's mother about Smile Train and giving her hope that her baby could be helped to live a normal life. Unfortunately, the baby did not live long enough for the surgery to be performed. Smile Train comes to Narok Hospital periodically and we had hoped that the child could have been helped on their next trip. |
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Historically, one out of |
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The 10/40 Window is an area stretching from 10° to 40° north of the equator from West Africa to East Asia. Did you know that 90 percent of all unreached people groups live in this region of the world? The 10/40 Window is identified as having less than 2 percent of their populations as evangelical Christians. |
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How to Contribute |
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Kenya Medical
Outreach, Inc. A
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For more
information or to send donations to continue God's work: Email Dr. Bill Williams Mail Bill at 200 Johnson Road Suwanee, GA 30024 |
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