What We Do
Oral Health Education (OHE)
What is the need for Oral Health Education?
The recent influx of cheap, high sugar drinks and sweets threatens to have a devastating effect on child oral health in the next 10 years unless we can respond.
Education is the key to making a lasting difference to the oral health of Mwanza region.
Education and Screening
Over the past four years, we have regularly spent time in the local communities carrying out free oral health screening in schools and orphanages. To date, well over 2,000 people have received this free service. Each person screened receives an oral health report outlining any dental problems that need addressing and giving basic oral health advice. They are then invited to attend the clinic to either discuss their individual case further or to receive treatment. In certain cases Hope Dental Centre will provide this treatment at subsidised rates or even for free.