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West Africa was where freed slaves of the South USA went after the Civil War; the capital is appropriately named Freetown. I was in Sierra Leone for a month in 2001, while the 10 year war with the rebels over diamonds was going and ended in 2002 leaving the struggling country with some 75% of the world's amputees, the rebels amputated hands, feet, arms and legs of children that are now teenagers or young 20's adults with many severe problems.
In 2001, I went with a refugee dental therapist, Adama Stevens, and we taught the few dentists and dental therapist our simple prevention and ART. A full page article in the Freetown newspaper brought us an inquiry wanting to learn more and dinner with Earnest Komoro, now the Honorable President of Sierra Leone.
I returned in late 2009 for a month teaching the dentists and trained two you ladies high school graduates to begin the process of teaching oral hygiene to grades 1 to 3. The recent death of one of the six government dentist leaves only five dentists for 5,700,000 Million people or 1,140,000 per dentist.
Everything is in place, the Minister of Health and other necessary officials is fully cooperating and supporting The Sierra Leone Six-Year Molar Focus School, next door to their medical school and its faculty available to teach subjects needed. Our two fulltime employees (young ladies) have taught oral hygiene with a free toothbrush 5,245 in 21 schools, of these 1,932 (36%) needed ART restorations and some 300 (15.5%) had ART by more-than-busy dentists. The more-than-busy dentists, is the very basic reason, for the Sierra Leone Six-Year Molar Focus School when funds available.
World Wide, Tooth Decay is the Most Prevalent Childhood Disease
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West Africa was where freed slaves of the South USA went after the Civil War; the capital is appropriately named Freetown. I was in Sierra Leone for a month in 2001, while the 10 year war with the rebels over diamonds was going and ended in 2002 leaving the struggling country with some 75% of the world's amputees, the rebels amputated hands, feet, arms and legs of children that are now teenagers or young 20's adults with many severe problems.
In 2001, I went with a refugee dental therapist, Adama Stevens, and we taught the few dentists and dental therapist our simple prevention and ART. A full page article in the Freetown newspaper brought us an inquiry wanting to learn more and dinner with Earnest Komoro, now the Honorable President of Sierra Leone.
I returned in late 2009 for a month teaching the dentists and trained two you ladies high school graduates to begin the process of teaching oral hygiene to grades 1 to 3. The recent death of one of the six government dentist leaves only five dentists for 5,700,000 Million people or 1,140,000 per dentist.
Everything is in place, the Minister of Health and other necessary officials is fully cooperating and supporting The Sierra Leone Six-Year Molar Focus School, next door to their medical school and its faculty available to teach subjects needed. Our two fulltime employees (young ladies) have taught oral hygiene with a free toothbrush 5,245 in 21 schools, of these 1,932 (36%) needed ART restorations and some 300 (15.5%) had ART by more-than-busy dentists. The more-than-busy dentists, is the very basic reason, for the Sierra Leone Six-Year Molar Focus School when funds available.
World Wide, Tooth Decay is the Most Prevalent Childhood Disease
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